Biographies live or die by the documents their subjects leave behind. If the paper trail is thin—few letters or bills, not much in the way of diaries—filling out even a basic life’s outline, especially from the distance of years and years, gets increasingly tougher. All the people who knew the subject die, and with…
President Obama, North Korea, the White House, the FBI, and a host of despairing executives have said their piece about the colossal Sony hack of 2014. But what about the actual Hollywood stars whose correspondence was leaked in the hack? We emailed them at their personal email addresses and asked. All at once.
A rare correspondence from Virginia Woolf to her nephew Julian has surfaced, and in it, Woolf takes a critical eye to his poetry: "My dear Julian. I like the poem very much. It still wants CURRENCY I think. When did you write it?" The letter most likely dates back to 1929. [The Paris Review]
Since 1944, through 6 wars, Chicago's Barbara Spanier has been writing to any soldier who needs a friend. "I feel like they're my sons...I only have four girls and I feel like they were my sons." [UPI]
This series of love letters between the author's parents in the dark days of 1939 England is a fascinating peek into lives, history - and the lost art of correspondence. [TimesUK]
Why is the internet so much better for breakups?
