Like video killed the radio star, it’s easy to feel that texts and emails have spelled the end of letter writing. Sure, the simple act of putting pen to paper is a rarer occurrence today than it was - ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

From time immemorial, handwritten correspondence has ranked among the most intimate and vibrant modes of human communication. To the letter writer, an unfilled folio is an empty receptacle, a vessel ...

The man took a seat, slid a blank postcard in front of him, plucked a pen from a jar and paused. There. That’s the moment that Rachel Weil lives for. The addressee chosen. The sentiment sorted out.

For the past couple of years, Courtney Cochran hosted a Nashville-based meetup group called the Snail Mail Social Club. Before the pandemic, it involved people gathering, pen and paper in hand, to ...

In the back room of a Los Angeles area stationery store, where handmade rubber stamps and intricate notecards line walls and shelves, more than a dozen people let pen and ink flow over fancy paper and ...

Is letter writing a dying art? Not so fast. In today’s day and age, retro is cool again. Nostalgia is huge, and brands are increasingly marketing nostalgia to consumers who want to return to the 1990s ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...

Uppsala, Sweden, 17th Dec 2025 – Paper Whisper has introduced a seasonal selection of Japanese stationery curated around ...

Texting and emailing have revolutionized the way we communicate, enabling us to be more efficient and stay in touch more easily. But they have also altered the dynamics of some of our most important ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...