On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

BERKELEY — Maybe it’s the way the letters smack against paper and the ink leaves an indelible imprint. It could be the rhythmic song of thoughts becoming words. It might be the vintage of a manual ...

The Guardian ran this piece yesterday in which writer Tim Adams opens with a quote from author Don DeLillo about how much he loves his manual typewriter: I need the sound of the keys, the keys of a ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

When I want to get some serious distraction-free writing done, I turn to an old Royal manual typewriter. Call me a hipster all you want, but there’s something about manually throwing keys around on a ...