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New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme, whose writing topics include “clothes and people and people in clothes”, established Penpalooza in the spring of 2020 as a way to turn pandemic ennui and dread into something creative. While some people consider letter writing to be slow and old-fashioned way of communicating, others beg to differ – something evidenced in the response to this project. Indeed, the excitement behind the Penpalooza hashtag on Twitter and Instagram is palpable, feeling both contagious and genuine, with proof in the aesthetics invested into the letters: decorated stationery, delicate calligraphy, colourful collages, vintage paper and rubber stamps, as well as tactile wax seals. “But you don’t need all of that,” assures Syme. “If your first letter happens on the back of a receipt, that’s fine.” ....