John Contreras is one of Milwaukee's hardest-working typewriter poets. He will be at the OnMilwaukee Spelling Bee and ready ...

The roots of a great writer can always be traced back to some point. When reflecting on the origins of a literary giant like, say, Ernest Hemingway, the lines can be traced back to numerous starting ...

Mark Braude's nonfiction book intertwines the compelling story of American writer Janet Flanner with the less-compelling ...

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 ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

It might be the ultimate anti-tech device.

Poet Alexander Muñoz Jones found himself sitting outside a wake, booked to write on-the-spot poems for attendees about their experiences in grief, appreciation, or really anything at all. On his ...

The actor and typewriter enthusiast wrote back to the teens weeks after they sent off letters to him Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School Last fall, some students at the Lincoln Park Performing ...

One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...

ARLINGTON - For the past 45 years, Tom Furrier has mastered the craft of restoring, reviving, and selling typewriters in his shop in Arlington, Massachusetts. Now, he's retiring. The Cambridge ...

Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it ...