By Norman Mailer
Issue: Oct 6
The New Yorker got its hands on all these letters Norman Mailer wrote between 1945 and 2005 and printed them. The first letter is to Sweet Baby Beatrice Mailer and addresses the emergence of the atom bomb. Not all the letters are quite so heavy, but the subhead for the article does read, "Grappling with the twentieth century."
Casually referencing this article will serve you well in several upcoming conversations with your relatives about how nobody writes letters anymore. If, however, you have no thanksgiving plans, go ahead and read this compilation. I certainly didn't.
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