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 ...

The best free typewriter fonts can be just the ticket for adding a vintage feel to all kinds of designs. Typewriter typefaces evoke images of the past, of reporters hammering away in exotic locations ...

ARLINGTON (CBS) - The pandemic has changed the way we live. Remote learning. Work from home. Zoom calls all day long. A lot of people are yearning for life to be more simple. That has made a low tech ...

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 ...

The great author of history, David McCullough, writes on a manual typewriter. So did the late playwright Sam Shepard. Tom Hanks owns dozens of typewriters, his favorite of which he uses to type thank ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

Typewriters ooze productivity — which might be why we love using them to procrastinate. If you’ve been on the internet in the last month, you probably spent two minutes and three seconds watching this ...

Faster than a pen and paper, more decipherable than a hasty scrawl: The typewriter was a boon to writers for many years. Here’s a look some favorite writers’ typewriters and the machine in all its ...

Martin Tytell, known as Mr. Typewriter, passed away this week. He repaired machines for a number of great writers. This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. If you ever sent a letter to ...

The Nov. 15, 1919 issue of the late Literary Digest was a strange looking creation. Due to a compositors’ strike, the magazine used typewriters to prepare its columns of editorial matter, photographed ...