Fran Lebowitz at the Morgan Library
“When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person”
Thank you
“Do thank-you notes still matter?” The New York Times says “Yes.”
A letter from Oliver Sacks
To Austin Kleon. And it’s handwritten. Bonuses: the note-taking effort that prompted the letter, and a tour of Sacks’s desk.
“Jail mail”
From the New York Times: in prison, “the art of the pen-to-paper letter to the editor is thriving.”