Flutterby™! :

In the New York Times (free, but registration required), a piece called Did you Get Her E-Mail Address? addresses the "the revival of the epistolary romance." As people who've known me for a while know I've got mixed feelings about technology. I'm concerned that TV and movies have removed some of the need for and beauty of the symbolic manipulation that language, particularly written, requires, and I think that the loss of written language means that we're losing some of our thinking skills. On the other hand, e-mail and the web, both being primarily text, have brought a great resurgence in writing and reading, which I think is a wonderful thing.