Though I had grown up seeing my dad always using them, my own obsession with fountain pens started a little over three years ago, when I ordered my first pen, a jade-colored TWSBI Eco. It made writing ...
This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...
Sarah McNally owns and operates McNally Jackson Books and Goods for the Study in New York City. She is also the publisher of ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Handwritten letters are seen as a lost form of art these days, but that doesn’t mean you ...
It’s totally tempting to use a fountain pen. These throwback writing utensils carry a promise of a slower time, when people had hours to write — and when the main writing tool wasn’t a $1,000 computer ...
I've always appreciated a fine writing implement. At Popular Mechanics, my starting rotation features a Tetzbo ballpoint pen from Japan, a Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencil from the Czech Republic, and a ...
Roger Cromwell buys and sells fountain pens. He repairs and restores them, knows their history and can speak at length on the various nibs, ink sacs, converters, pistons, barrels and pump fillers that ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Often, when the day is done — when classes and meetings are over, and when his infant twins and toddler are finally asleep — University at Buffalo chemistry researcher Timothy Cook ...