Liquid graphite pencils
Not exactly new
The story of QWERTY
Keyboard history
Ernie Pyle in the Library of America
World War II writing, from the Library of America
How to improve writing (no. 28)
Improving vacuous, pretentious sentences from a brandy bottle
Van Dyke Parks, getting things done
A memo that got results
Nelson Riddle on the Blackwing pencil
He liked it
Stephen Sondheim on pencils and paper
A Blackwing and legal pad man
"When Seymour was twenty-one"
From J.D. Salinger, Seymour — An Introduction
The government-issue pen
Washington Post article on a dowdy writing instrument
Roger Lathbury and Hapworth 16, 1924
How the publication of a Salinger novella came to naught
John Gruber on typing and the iPad
"You absolutely do not need a hardware keyboard for it. But if you're hoping to do any amount of serious writing with it (and, for obvious vocational reasons, I plan to), you're going to want one."
Five sentences about clothes
Other people's homework
Obama revisions
Analysis of draft revisions visible in a White House photograph
What good writing looks like
Revise, revise, revise. White House photograph.
How to improve writing (no. 27)
Changing Blogger's "View my complete profile"
Artists' lists
A Smithsonian exhibit
Five sentences on the ship
Honoring a Google search
A Salinger sentence
From "For Esmé — with Love and Squalor"
Recently updated
Old posts, new stuff
Margaret Atwood's rules for writers
Pencils
Red marks, blue marks (J.D. Salinger)
Salinger manuscripts, maybe?
"The Essay Writing Song"
Fred Rogers, imaginary advice for college students
Lawrence Wright on writing tools
Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen
Another Salinger catalogue
The Glass family's living room
Stopette
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
Sal Hepatica
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
Musterole
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
Argyrol
An item in a catalogue, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
A Salinger catalogue
From Franny and Zooey, the contents of a medicine cabinet
"[D]ark, wordy, academic deaths"
From J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey