Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Katherine Gale compiled this month’s selections.

There’s certainly no shortage of tattooers in the fine art world these days, and there’s a wealth of tattooers focused on turning the alphabet into an art form, but there’s really only one Los Angeles ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - Calligraphers’ Guild carries on tradition of artistic lettering By Josh McAuliffe Published: April 19, 2015 Calligraphers’ Guild carries on tradition of artistic lettering In this ...

Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. So it is for Emil J. Polak as he strides into the Bibliothèque Méjanes here. It is the 728th library -- nearly all of them in Europe -- that ...

Letters did not count [as writing]. A woman might write letters while sitting by her father’s sick-bed. She could write them by the fire while the men talked without disturbing them. The strange thing ...

I still remember the Joy and Happiness that I would get when someone wrote a letter to me and I wrote a letter to someone.The excitement of opening the envelope ,which was pasted with gum was ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...

Emailing, tweeting, texting — 20 years ago, these things were unheard of. Now, we can’t live without them. Although the advances in technology are amazing, we can lose some things along the way, as ...