A book documents how typewriters have been used to create astonishing works of graphic art for more than a century. One quality that seems to define humanity isn’t just its compulsion to create art, ...

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

A new episode of Mad Men or a rare airing of Murder, She Wrote isn’t the only time to stare longingly at a beautiful, sleek typewriter. There are 28 (sometimes 29) days every year dedicated to the ...

I was born on the cusp of the transition from typewriter to computer. Some of my older friends would take typing classes during the summer break. Some of them even considered it a career option. Many ...

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken on a new leading role as an iPad app developer. His Hanx Writer app-- which recently hit the top of the charts as the most downloaded app in iTunes -- combines ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Then, after closing out the registers, Gustafson descends one last time to the store's lower level, the part of the bookstore stuffed with volumes on cooking and gardening, travel and history. And he ...