As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a ...

The invention of the letter, as a means of conveying news and other kinds of information, is often attributed to a Persian queen, Atossa, who reigned 2,500 years ago. But none of her correspondence ...

For the past year and a half, Gary Fine has operated Prisoner Express from his apartment: sending books, letters and programming packets to incarcerated individuals through his nationwide organization ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. The act of writing letters may be written off as obsolete, but the power of the ...