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terence-clarke's picture
Dec.12.2012
A new HuffPost piece by me, about the end of the letter as a vital literary genre, and its replacement by...well, something else.
dorothy-nixon's picture
Jun.25.2012
  School Marms and Suffragettes is a free ebook based on  three hundred 1910 era letters belonging to a respectable middle class family from Richmond Quebec.     The one-of-a-kind ebook describes the tail-end of the Laurier Era through the eyes of three vivacious middle...
jm-cornwell's picture
Sep.03.2011
It wasn't an addiction in the beginning. It was an idea. I had just seen the mini series about John and Abigail Adams and had read some of the background material about their letters, those personal and intimate letters. That is how it began. There was a little stationery in my cache of goods and...
marilyn-jaye-lewis's picture
Jul.28.2011
...than rich, deep humidity that you can really sink your teeth into, gang?? Yes, it's back. But the good news is that the temperatures are hovering in the low 90s instead of the low 100s... Still, ideas like: staying up late and sitting outside watching the sun set and the fireflies emerge...
jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jan.21.2009
This week, I started a personal essay writing class at UCLA Extension taught by Shawna Kenney.  One of the big perks, truly, of my job there is that I get to take a comp class each quarter.  As I am working my way into essay writing,  my past two classes have focused on memoir and personal essay...