This article originally appear in October 1984 issue of Town & Country. I am not among those who believe that letter writing is dead. My idea of heaven, in fact, is having at least four letters to ...

I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” It’s a good reminder: It does take time to write a short, well-crafted letter. I know the challenge ...

Sometimes when talking to students about the writing life I will say, “The mail is great.” But it occurs to me, I should explain. The impulse, the logic to reader mail, is something that took me some ...

For what it’s worth, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” is one of my comfort movies. I watched it for the first time when I started high school, and I imagine I was taken with the same emotions as ...

Source: Caroline Leavitt It started young for me. I didn’t really have anyone to talk with. My father was a sulky, silent brute and I couldn’t risk getting yelled at or hit by speaking up. My mother ...