For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication

Remember letters? They were good, weren’t they? The thrill of receiving that battered envelope, all the better for the wait . . .

In this richly entertaining book, paper geek John O’Connell puts forward a passionate case for the value of letter-writing in a distracted, technology-obsessed world.

Drawing on great examples from the past, he shows that the best letters have much to teach us—Samuel Richardson’s "Familiar Letters," Wilfred Owen’s outpourings to his mother, the sly observational ...