After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there are endless distractions when it ...

It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one was easy, but I wasn't expecting to find Cincinnati eclectic Richard ...

I AM moved to set down my reflections, because I believe the day is approaching when the typewriter — I have in mind the human being, and not the machine — shall have become nearly or quite extinct.

Late one evening a few years ago, Tom Rehkopf got a phone call from an unfamiliar number. The caller had an unusual request: “I need six working Selectrics by tomorrow morning.” Rehkopf was stunned.

For many years now I have used a computer keyboard to do most of the writing I do and, though the computer does the obligatory job, I still use, and much prefer, a typewriter. It is on that machine — ...

It'd be hard to find a student who doesn't write his papers on a laptop. Most papers are due online, the editing is expedited, and you have quick, easy access. However, you do have other options, and ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...

It seems like two things are increasing with every year: laptop prices, and tablet functionality. With these two things in ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them. Using a ...

Ian McAndrew received what appeared to be a suspicious email from a person saying they were Tom Hanks’ assistant and were informing him that Hanks wanted to send him a special gift. “Normally, an ...