Letter of the Week

  • What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Humor sometimes. I was writing an essay yesterday. The first paragraph is my writing. The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin. There was a social event in our neighborhood that…

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  • What are you good at? I’m really good at making everyday events, sublime. “American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.”― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test I cannot imagine going through life, inheriting boatloads of liquid assets, making a lot of money, and then giving extraordinarily little of it back to…

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About the Archivist

This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.

Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.