I recently came across an interesting article titled, "For five bucks, you can make a famous author your pen pal", written by Chiara Atik for Today.Com about a new print subscription program called Letters in the Mail.
Stephen Elliot, the founder of the literary website The Rumpus, is the brain child of the Letters in the Mail program and for $5 a month, you will receive approximately one printed (not hand written) letter a week in the mail from a famous author. According to The Rumpus website, "Letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Stephen Elliott, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames." To learn more about the Letters in the Mail subscription program, click on the links above.
Most of the authors listed above are ones I've never even heard of before. The Rumpus is also a new literary website to me as well. A whole new world awaits! Ah, the joys of discovering new authors and literary websites!
Stephen Elliot, the founder of the literary website The Rumpus, is the brain child of the Letters in the Mail program and for $5 a month, you will receive approximately one printed (not hand written) letter a week in the mail from a famous author. According to The Rumpus website, "Letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Stephen Elliott, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames." To learn more about the Letters in the Mail subscription program, click on the links above.
Most of the authors listed above are ones I've never even heard of before. The Rumpus is also a new literary website to me as well. A whole new world awaits! Ah, the joys of discovering new authors and literary websites!
This sounded fantastic until I read 'printed' letter. To me, that's not a letter at all; that's an essay mass-distributed. Probably still nice to read (those are some good authors), but a little misleading.
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