The delightfully analog art of letter-writing
toggle caption Illustration © by Joana Avillez, Reprinted with permission from Syme's Letter Writer by Rachel Syme/Clarkson Potter Publishers
The art of letter writing is not dead.
Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media if anyone wanted to be her pen pal.
"I got 300 responses," she says. She couldn't possibly write to everyone, so she created a letter-exchanging program called PenPalooza to "connect all these people to one another." It now has more than 10,000 members.
Those efforts kickstarted a letter-writing routine that Syme says continu
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