Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

When Lisbeth Werlin was a child, she would sit at her grandfather’s typewriter and take joy in hammering out different words on the olive green L.C. Smith Secretarial from the 1930s. The L.C. Smith ...

The click clack of typewriter keys along with the swoosh and ding of starting a new line may be a foreign sound to many, but it’s a frequent and welcome noise in this little shop on 17th Street in ...

In an era where we glorify speed and nearly everyone carries a computer in their pocket, it’s a surprise to find New York City’s Paul Schweitzer filling up a “doctor’s bag” with tools of his trade – ...

In an era when we glorify speed and nearly everyone carries a computer in their pocket, it’s a surprise to find New York City’s Paul Schweitzer filling up a “doctor’s bag” with tools of his trade — ...