Happy Friday!
Here are a couple Friday links to kick off the weekend. This week’s theme is about how the link between literature and the postal service.
Indie darlings The Postal Service, who collaborated through snail mail, are touring the US right now. Can you believe Give Up is celebrating its 10th anniversary?!
Ireland fit a whole short story on a new stamp (via PW Daily)
When you’re a writer, your mailbox can be a source of agony — but it’s important to remember you’re in good company: Alfred A. Knopf sent rejection letters to Jack Kerouac and other famous authors in this 2007 NPR story.
On my recent trip to Dallas, I read Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette on the plane. The book, which garnered tons of publicity last year, features emails and snail mail between the characters. What’s your favorite epistolary novel?
As a young girl growing up in Australia, Geraldine Brooks had pen pals through the world. Twenty years later she went on a search to find these long-lost pen-pal friends, as told in the memoir Foreign Correspondence.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 
No, I can’t believe Give Up is that old – I listen to it quite often. Do you know Iron& Wine’s very fine version of ‘Such Great Heights’?
Love Iron & Wine. Oh that brings back such memories!
Me too, although I was very disappointed with the last two records. Have you checked out my new blog? There will be Iron & Wine related stuff on there at some point as well. J
I didn’t realize you had a new blog! What’s the URL?
Here’s my latest post:
Thanks! Looking forward to checking it out!!