Letter Writing Minus Hillary

July 30, 2007

From a brief Slate article on the recently released, forty-year old letters from Hillary Clinton to a college friend:

…the letters also filled me with nostalgia for letter-writing itself. Though I won’t pretend that this activity is morally preferable to e-mail or instant messaging, letter-writing certainly was stylistically preferable. Letters had a beginning, a middle, and a carefully crafted conclusion. Effort was exerted to make them discursive, amusing, and readable.

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