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For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing
By Samara O’Shea
Collins, 172 pages, $19.95
Emily Post bemoaned the threats to letter writing — telegrams, phone messages, postcards — in 1922. Famous letters (Marie Antoinette to her sister, before she headed to the guillotine), plus clear advice on how to craft a compelling letter, are stylishly collected here, organized into chapters on everything from letters of sympathy to breakup. As James Earl Jones once noted: “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”