SYME'S LETTER WRITER A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers

Rachel Syme is delightful company. Upbeat, witty, informative, and persuasive, her guide to all things epistolary entertains while convincing listeners that letters (preferably hand-scrawled) are some of the best things in life. Narrating in a cheerful, perky, and crisply enunciated tone, and introduced by romantic music, Syme explores it all: letter-writing history, tales of famous letter writers, how to write a letter or postcard, desktop ephemera, lists of possible correspondence topics, how to find a pen pal, how to write bitchy letters. (Jane Austen excelled, evidently.) A downloadable pdf contains bonus material, including letter-writing playlists. Throughout, Syme is funny and lighthearted, as well as heartfelt and sincere. The final chapter, an audio-exclusive conversation with Syme's own pen pal, Rebecca Bact, is perfect inspiration for finding an epistolary chum. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2025]