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Syme's Letter Writer
A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous W
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 3R63GR4
EAN: 9780593235102
Auf Lager:
6
Zustellung: Di, 02.06.2026
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Beschreibung
"A literary jaunt in praise of the lost art of letter writing that explores a cultural history and the undeniable thrill of old-school correspondence-from New Yorker culture writer Rachel Syme. Inspired by a bestselling turn-of-the-century correspondence handbook penned by a snooty Victorian who had strong opinions on how to lick a stamp, Rachel Syme has rewritten the staid rules of yore for today's letter writers. Syme insists you must stuff your envelopes with flat frivolities (tip: never glitter. ), ask before you perfume a parcel, and cultivate your own ritual around keeping up with your correspondence. Immerse yourself in this epistolary bric-a-brac celebrating the intimate (whimsical. expressive. ) art of written correspondence, covering every part of the process from courting and keeping a pen pal down to buying the best nibs for your refurbished vintage fountain pen. As you read fragments of letters from some of contemporary history's most iconic figures-Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, Virginia Woolf, MFK Fisher, Diana Vreeland, Octavia Butler-take note of how to write about the weather without being a total snooze, how to write a letter like a poet, and how to infuse your writing with a glamorous mystique. Learn about Julia Child's lifelong pen pal, Maya Angelou's penchant for hotel stationery, and the importance of choosing a signature paper that captures your essence. After all, the words you write on paper, no matter how limited the audience, can offer comfort, shared sorrow, cathartic rage, hard-earned insight, refreshing strangeness, absurd silliness, understanding, peace, beauty-and often all of those things all mixed up at the same time"-
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Rachel Syme
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224