The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting Philip Hensher
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Dec 13, 2012 - And now, through lack of practice, I'm losing facility. This is from a The Missing Ink is [a] casually elegant look at a “modest, pleasurable, private skill” that “is about to vanish from our lives altogether”: the art of handwriting. €Whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off,” Konnikova writes, “he would compose what he called a 'hot letter'. May 16, 2013 - A few of my letter-loving friends read The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, so I decided to give this short book a go. Will Never Replace the Handwritten Note, Forbes. Oct 29, 2012 - "Probably at some point in the future, we will start thinking of our communication devices as warm, in the way that we think, or used to think of our pens. Sep 6, 2012 - That the monument was dedicated to a citizen who passed away 148 years ago was unusual enough, but what is hard to believe, in this age of digital texting and tapping, was that this man's claim to fame was handwriting. Apr 3, 2014 - Have you seen this New York Times article about the lost art of the unsent angry letter? I have to thank Hensher for his humorous tone in his book. In Praise of the Write Stuff, The Financial Times · The Lost Art of the Handwritten Note, The Wall Street Journal We tend to agree, and, as Hensher observes in his book The Missing Ink, have seen a resurgence in appreciation for the handwritten word in direct response to the sterility and uniformity of typed letters. The only trouble that I remember about that move was that the 3rd graders already knew how to write with pens and ink! I wrote months back about the lost art of handwriting and how I think our children are missing out.