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

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 ...

This edition of the Dinner Party Download looks into cutlery and taste, the reading habits of younger Americans, and the history of the modern typewriter. This edition of the Dinner Party Download ...

Following in the tech-savvy footsteps of the likes of Kim Kardashian, Tom Hanks has launched an iPad app. The Oscar-winning actor last week launched Hanx Writer, which simulates the experience and ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

Author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and other geeky tomes Neal Stephenson described how he wrote his first book at a 2003 USENIX keynote speech. After an editor accepted his book proposal, Stephenson ...

The precursors to computer keyboards we all know and use every day, typewriters were found in practically every school and office for well over 100 years. However, to many kids today, typewriters may ...

At first glance it looks like one of the wacky inventions from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But for those who have not yet joined the computer age, preferring the clatter and ding of their inky ...