“Writer-y”
From Zits.
Pen and paper and
From Judith Flanders’s A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order: everything that used to be needed for writing with ink.
Obama pens
Black Uni-ball Vision Elite rollerball pens with a micro-point.
Sharpied
Kellyanne Conway, as heard on CNN a little while ago, talking about Donald Trump’s preparation for his State of the Union address: “He Sharpied up a lot of the passages.”
Timmy Martin, writer
“Where’s the pen and ink and good paper?”
The 26 Old Characters
From the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company, a dowdy-world history of our alphabet and fountain pens.
Pen, not dead yet
“The New York Times has given Nick Bilton the space in its Fashion & Style section to announce that the pen is dead. Yes, linkbait.”
Ballpoints, not for writing?
From The Jeffersons: “Ballpoint pens are not for writing. They’re for making marks.”
Barthes on pens
In the end, I always return to fine fountain pens.
The government-issue pen
Washington Post article on a dowdy writing instrument
Recently updated
Old posts, new stuff
Lawrence Wright on writing tools
Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen
Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper
Like it says, at Office Supply Geek
Montblanc's Gandhi pen
Ugh.
Proust's supplies
Nibs and ink
Five pens
Parker T-Ball Jotter, red ballpoint, Faber-Castell Uni-Ball, Montblanc, Pelkan: for National Handwriting Day
Thinking with pens and pencils
Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.
Pens, quills, and great big typewriters
In the movie Laura