Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable ...

Their clickety-clacks once filled steno pools around the city, a kind of reassuring elevator music for generations of office workers. Today, in most places where paper is still shuffled, the noisy ...

A candy apple red Olivetti manual typewriter, circa 1960s — its keys white like the stripe splashed across the Corvette convertible of the same shade and era — draws you into Kensington Office ...

Soon after I got my first big-time sports department job, back when the Super Bowl was still a novel idea, I noticed the big-time sportswriters all carried the same kind of portable typewriters. They ...

Writing on a typewriter is a transient thing, like a short-lived but brightly burning and clamorous love affair. Once the thing is written, the paper is removed from the typewriter and the two things ...

MANUAL TYPEWRITERS may be anachronisms in a touch-screen world, but they are experiencing a renaissance of sorts, and not only among writers arched over their desks like commas. While the comeback has ...

Most kids these days approach computers, cellphones and other digital devices with a comfort level their parents and grandparents probably envy. Conversely, when faced with such things as a manual ...