not an eager biographer, Alison, but save some for reference
>Anyone here save their emails for those future eager biographers? Not sure
>that I'd like anyone looking at mine -
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>Best
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>A
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>Literary Letters, Lost in Cyberspace
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>By RACHEL DONADIO
>Published: September 4, 2005
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>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.
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>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.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04DONADIO.html?pagewanted=all
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>Alison Croggon
>
>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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