Zócalo Public SquareBad Handwriting, A No-Good War, and Fun Facts – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bad Handwriting, A No-Good War, and Fun Facts https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/23/bad-handwriting-a-no-good-war-and-fun-facts/books/the-six-point-inspection/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/23/bad-handwriting-a-no-good-war-and-fun-facts/books/the-six-point-inspection/#respond Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:01:06 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=44170 The nutshell: British novelist Hensher melds memoir and meditation, interviews and history to find out if the art of putting pen, pencil, or quill to paper is indeed dead. Literary lovechild of: David L. Ulin’s The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and Thomas Mallon’s Yours Ever: People and Their Letters.

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]]> The nutshell: British novelist Hensher melds memoir and meditation, interviews and history to find out if the art of putting pen, pencil, or quill to paper is indeed dead.

Literary lovechild of: David L. Ulin’s The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and Thomas Mallon’s Yours Ever: People and Their Letters.

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