Snail-mail celebration as Rumpus starts subscription service where readers get ...
22.05.12
Said to the crowd. “I’d love to go to my mailbox and come out with a bunch of letters. An amazing day would be to have more than one letter and I would take my time with it.”
He spoke to a standing-room-only crowd from a stage set up between the store's dance and graphic novel sections. They were there to hear Ames and other writers celebrate the forgotten, low-tech intimacy of letter writing. The event was in celebration of the " Letters in the Mail " service, organized by literary website The Rumpus . For $60 a year, 2,100 subscribers will get a letter written the old-fashioned way, sealed in an envelope, stamped and, sometimes, even with a return address to encourage replies.
Some of those contributors, including Ames, Tao Lin, and Emily Gould, brought letters or other work to read last night. They weren't all ink-and-paper letters but in their own way, each writer touched on how confusing it can sometimes be to communicate and connect. The Rumpus itself has been, until this project, a web-only venture, so the effects of technology and social media were evident in plenty of what was read and discussed.
Source: Capital New York