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01-26-2006 09:34 AM ET (US)
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"The secret life of a letter to the editor"Apparently the letter sold insurance and had three wives, one in Hoboken, one in Portland, and one in St. Petersburg. In the current New Yorker is a letter to the editor from Valerie Lawson, in response to Caitlin Flanagans December 19 article on Pamela Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins. Lawson is the author of a biography of Travers, and her letter reads like a relatively benign effort to make clear the decades-long effort by Poppins scholars to tease out Traverss elusive life story. It did not begin that way, as this lengthy and not so benign e-mail thread between Lawson and editors at The New Yorker shows. The exchange offers a glimpse at the sausage-factory aspect of how the magazine handles complaints, and raises interesting questions about what journalists owe, in terms of recognition, to their sources. (From Maud) Home
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12-08-2005 10:02 AM ET (US)
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<b>Love letters: the competition<b> I submit to you that if you entered this contest, you're not really in love with anyone but yourself. Home
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11-01-2005 10:27 AM ET (US)
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Emails and letters: not that far apartApparently, we deal with emails very much the way we used to deal with paper letters. Hm. I don't remember rolling my eyes and feeling buried by obligation back when I was analog. Of course, I was about 10 last time I was analog. I also don't remember all the porn flyers, but I might have blocked those out. Home
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09-04-2005 05:14 PM ET (US)
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How will we discover our favourite writers are perverts?If nobody's keeping their e-mail? Today, a new challenge awaits literary biographers and cultural historians: e-mail. The problem isn't that writers and their editors are corresponding less, it's that they're corresponding infinitely more -- but not always saving their e-mail messages. Publishing houses, magazines and many writers freely admit they have no coherent system for saving e-mail, let alone saving it in a format that would be easily accessible to scholars. Biography, straight up or fictionalized, is arguably one of today's richest literary forms, but it relies on a kind of correspondence that's increasingly rare, or lost in cyberspace. Home
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06-09-2005 07:04 AM ET (US)
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Shelley letters fetch pretty pennyOr shilling, as the case may be. Home
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02-23-2005 10:34 PM ET (US)
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New Shelley letters up for auctionIn which he says Jesus didn't exist. God must have killed so many kittens when He read that... Home
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12-22-2004 04:28 PM ET (US)
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Dear Elizabeth Letters from Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop. Home
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12-21-2004 10:23 AM ET (US)
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Are there transcripts available?
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12-21-2004 09:01 AM ET (US)
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Hi Rich,
Thanks for stopping by and saying hello. Nice time slot, eh? It's apparently airing again on the 24th at 9 pm -- a little more reasonable.
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12-20-2004 10:30 AM ET (US)
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Have no idea as to where to post this, so I figured this looked like a mighty fine spot!
Just saying hello. Saw you on C-SPAN at 3AMish December 20th, 2004. Figured I'd drop you a line, and let you know you're not the only one who saw the fat-kid-star-wars thing.
G'day.
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12-20-2004 10:14 AM ET (US)
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Christmas letters to Christopher WalkenUm, yeah. (From Incoming Signals) Home
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12-08-2004 11:32 PM ET (US)
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Killer has a way with wordsHenry VIII's love notes prove he loved his wives to give head. I am so proud of that one. Home
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11-22-2004 11:36 PM ET (US)
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And on the love tipHere's a love letter from Franz Kafka. If I didn't know better, I'd say he was giving her a loquacious version of the old "it's not you, it's me." (From Incoming Signals) Home
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03-03-2004 09:48 PM ET (US)
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Browning's Soul Laid BareMore bare than in poetry... Yeesh. Grave robbers. Home
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