Anyone here save their emails for those future eager biographers? Not sure
that I'd like anyone looking at mine -
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Literary Letters, Lost in Cyberspace
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By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: September 4, 2005
Back in the 20th century, when publishers had three-martini lunches and
young women fresh out of Bryn Mawr became secretaries, not editors, it was
often lamented that the telephone might put an end to literary biography. In
lieu of letters, writers could just as easily gab on the phone, leaving no
trace.
Today, a new challenge awaits literary biographers and cultural historians:
e-mail. The problem isn't that writers and their editors are corresponding
less, it's that they're corresponding infinitely more -- but not always
saving their e-mail messages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04DONADIO.html?pagewanted=all
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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