Last fall, I brought my 1918 Royal manual typewriter into my Communicating Science to the Public class at MIT. I kept a box over the machine and unveiled it at the start of class as though revealing a ...

Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard and other typewriter collectors and enthusiasts stand up for the ancient machine in this Telluride doc. By Stephen Farber Those who haven’t adjusted ecstatically to all the ...

Kenneth Foster, Jr., became a writer on death row. When he was nineteen, he drove three friends to two armed robberies in San Antonio, Texas; late that night, one of the friends shot and killed a man.