Don’t Laugh at Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Intense Letters
“We know why people laugh easily at this stuff. It’s easier to eyeroll, in our Twitter age, at too many words, a surfeit of letters, too many emotions. It’s much easier to mock those who show their feelings, and interrogate those feelings, rather than those with a fast retort and glib surface engagement.
“And so, the Portman-Foer letters buck a negative trend: it is heartening, with the modern twist of email rather than quill and guttering candle, to at least see an attempt to return to the art of letter-writing, of connection, and elaboration.”
Artists will be artists, and at least Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer bravely ventured outside 140 characters to express themselves.
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