One reason to start writing letters the old-fashioned way: opening the mail can be fun.

Rachel Syme is a writer with a massive audience. But one of her favorite ways to write is much more personal. Syme is a ...

It was super fun. I had no designs on writing a book about letter writing, but Random House wanted me to do it. I was happy to oblige, and I made it weirder than they were expecting, which is ...