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I wrote a book about email – and found myself pining for the days of letter-writing

  • Written by Randy Malamud, Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
I wrote a book about email – and found myself pining for the days of letter-writingOn paper, lives were lived, trysts arranged, manifestos mailed and wars waged.MCAD Library/flickr, CC BY

Email has become so prevalent in our lives that I felt compelled to write about it for a Bloomsbury series called “Object Lessons” that examines “the hidden lives of ordinary things.”

Perhaps I chose this topic because I...

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