National Handwriting Day
Writing by hand: not dead yet.
Typewriters and handwriting
“Could handwriting be going the way of typewriters?”
Handwriting in the news
“Drug dealers trying to send morphine through the mail have seen their brazen smuggling attempt go wrong — thanks to bad handwriting.”
Nabokovian handwriting
Father and son.
Did ballpoints kill cursive?
I think that declining ability in cursive might be better explained as a matter of writers’ lack of interest in, or lack of care for, the handwritten word.
National Handwriting Day
“Hand with Pen Held Erect Opposite Eye of Beholder.” Ouch.
Handwrytten
“The happy recipient may soon begin to wonder why these cards from various senders all have the same postmark and the same ‘handwriting.’”
The handwriting is on the wall
Who says cursive is dead?
Handwriting, again
A New York Times article.
Baseball and handwriting
The New York Times reports on baseball players’ illegible autographs.
Thelonious Monk
“Years ago, years and years and years ago, my children would occasionally spend a morning on campus with me on days off from school. On one such occasion, my son Ben labeled a poster of Thelonious Monk in my office.”
Handwritten Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar (1966), another Robert Bresson film with handwriting.
Handwritten Bresson
Like the three other Bresson films I’ve seen, A Man Escaped has moments of handwriting. And like the other three, the film is completely compelling.
National Handwriting Day
Handwriting’s day has not yet passed.
Borges manuscript found
Found, in Argentina’s National Library, an unpublished bit of writing by Jorge Luis Borges.
The Art of Handwriting
From the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art: The Art of Handwriting. The online version of the exhibit has handwritten letters and postcards from thirty-nine artists.
Misread
I wish I could say that I can always trust my handwriting.
NYT cursive debate
Four viewpoints.
Tasty signature
A Tastykake Cupkake and Jack Lew’s signature.
“Swing for the L”
The perfect L in my dad’s signature is straight outta Palmer.
DFW on writing by hand
“Writing by hand and typewriter not only brings out the best in me — it brings out stuff I never would have dreamed was there.”
National Handwriting Day
Today is John Hancock’s birthday, and thus it’s National Handwriting Day.
Jerry Seinfeld, writing by hand
On legal pads with blue Bics.
Philip Hensher on handwriting
“I’ve come to the conclusion that handwriting is good for us. It involves us in a relationship with the written word that is sensuous, immediate and individual.”
National Handwriting Day
Thus a sample of my 1967 handwriting.
Illegibility and shopping
“plague rinse”
Sam Fink (1916–2011)
Artist and calligrapher.
Bad handwriting and job security
A look at life at the U.S. Postal Service’s Remote Encoding Center, “a room where hundreds of clerks sit in silence, day and night, staring at America's worst-addressed envelopes.”
Charles Simic on writing by hand
“[A] scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil are more preferable for philosophizing than typing the same words down.”
Celebrity-handwriting crisis
In the news, or “news,” a celebrity-handwriting crisis, or a celebrity handwriting-crisis.