Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive ...

The fountain pen as a practical writing instrument has been declared obsolete numerous times. It was supposedly doomed by the innovations of the drip-free ballpoint pen and the typewriter, then the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eleven years later, I returned to the city, and thankfully, the stationery shop was still there. Another benefit of a city that ...

For the past two years, during the twilight of my academic career, I have become a devotee of the fountain pen, often pondering this seemingly retro act of putting pen to paper. Composing again by ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

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Paul Homchick bought his first fountain pen three decades ago. He was working as an engineering consultant and wanted to seem trustworthy as he took notes. Since retiring, the 76-year-old has been ...

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When I was 19, I spent a semester in York. Every Monday, a professor dutifully doled out our weekly food allowance in notes, and I’d walk the cobbled streets to a local bakery just outside the Roman ...