Q: Picking through an antiques shop, I scored a forties manual typewriter for $20. I know this Hermes will inspire my first novel, but it needs resuscitation first. Is there a doctor in the house? A: ...

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...

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 ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...