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Reader letters

Letters arrive in an ordinary inbox and are read in the order they come in. A reply usually takes a week, occasionally two, very occasionally longer. Nothing you send is added to a list, shared with anyone, or quoted on the site without your express permission.

The address is [email protected]. Plain email is preferable to attachments, and a subject line that hints at the matter at hand is a small kindness.

What tends to be worth writing

The best letters are usually corrections — a factual error, a broken link, a sentence that reads wrong — or arguments with a particular line. If a practice on the site strikes you as wrong-headed, I would rather hear why than not. Descriptions of your own rituals are also welcome; these are sometimes quoted, always with permission and with the attribution you prefer. Kind notes, too, are read carefully even when a reply is slow.

What will not get a reply

Guest-post pitches, link-exchange proposals, SEO outreach, and sponsorship offers are deleted unread. The journal runs no sponsored content and exchanges no links. Unsolicited attachments and executables go the same way, so please keep it to prose.

About the message itself

Your email and its contents are kept only long enough to write a reply and for my own records of correspondence. The privacy policy has the longer version.

Paper

A postal address is available on request if you would prefer to write on paper. Send a note by email first; a return address helps.