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I came across these postcards and had to share them with you. Postcards, indeed letter writing, is almost a lost art, an activity no longer practised. And it’s a shame.
Actually at the moment I’m working on a project that involves people writing to those in their community that are a little isolated, depressed, need more comfort that a utility bill can give them. It’s a simple idea that can lead to profound results especially in an age of email and texts. I’m excited by it, going back to old school writing, thinking, slowing down, is wonderful. Anyway, to the point. I couldn’t resist these postcards, all written and sent by famous writers from Jack Kerouac to Franz Kafka and Hemingway to David Foster Wallace.
Here’s the who’s who list:
- A line in the sand, from Jack Kerouac to editor Malcolm Cowley, 1956
- From a very lonely F. Scott Fitzgerald to himself
- From Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, 1924
- From David Foster Wallace to Don DeLillo
- From Patti Smith to her sister Kimberly, 1968
- From Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1912
- From Rainer Maria Rilke to Hedwig Fischer, 1924
- From Kurt Vonnegut to pen pal David Breithaupt
- From C.S. Lewis to Robert W. Burchfield, written in Anglo-Saxon, 1953.
- From Allen Ginsberg to Ed White, 1971
- From James Joyce to publisher Elkin Matthews, 1908
- From Franz Kafka to Kurt Wolff, 1913
- From Henry Miller to V.E. Moody, 1978
- From Truman Capote to Boris Groudinko, 1960s
- From William S. Burroughs to underground artist S. Clay Wilson, 1982. Those are bullet holes
