Unreadability
Sloppy handwriting and a bank robbery.
Analog rising
“Sales of stationery and cards are actually up among younger and youngish people”: so says Marketplace Morning Report.
Robots writing
The Washington Post reports on Handwrytten, a robot-driven card-writing service.
Defending cursive
“A Defense of Cursive, From a 10-Year-Old National Champion” (The New York Times).
Writing at the British Library
An exhibition from the British Library: Writing: Making Your Mark.
The politics of cursive
The New York Times reports on the politics of cursive writing.
It’s National Handwriting Day
Handwriting need not involve cursive. Only paper, pen, pencil — or other tools. I thought about that last night while waiting at a railroad crossing and looking at the freight cars’ graffiti. That too is handwriting.
Heroic handwriting
Chiune Sugihara saved lives with his handwriting.
Cursive camp
“I love how, at the end of the day, you see all the amazing stuff we can do with letters.”
Handwriting on display
Coming in June to the Morgan Library and Museum, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection.
“A right or wrong hand”
Beverly Cleary learning to write: “No one had ever told me I had a right or wrong hand. I had always used the hand closer to the task.”
Pencils in the news
The Guardian reports that increasing number of English schoolchildren are unable to hold a pencil properly. The reason: too much technology.
National Handwriting Day
With a little over four hours left to play, I remembered.
“The important thing is handwriting”
From Pedro Almodóvar’s What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Pocket notebooks FTW
Did they ever really go away?
“Library hand”
Penmanship for librarians writing out catalogue cards.
National Handwriting Day
Mr. Peepers is sharpening in preparation.
Beverly Cleary, writing by hand
“To me, writing involves my imagination, a handful of 29-cent ball point pens, a stack of paper and time free from interruption.”
For handwriting
New York Times readers strike back: “Why Handwriting Is Still Important.”
Handwriting, pro and con
Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, in a contrarian review of Anne Trubek’s forthcoming book The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting.
Cursive Sluggo
From Nancy.
“The innervation of commanding fingers”
Walter Benjamin on handwriting and the typewriter.
From Lucy Gayheart
Eggs rolling downhill.
Handwriting in the news
In The New York Times.
“Oey,” oy
Linus was proud of his lettering.
Pocket notebook sighting
In City Girl (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1930).
Cursive Quimby
Ramona must be in the clutches of the Palmer Method.
A bonus
A word in a 17th-century gradual.
Handwritten prescriptions
Not in New York State.
Rev. Robert Palladino (1932–2016)
Steve Jobs sat in on his calligraphy class.