Script & Scribble : The Rise and Fall of Handwriting - Softcover

Kitty Burns Florey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612193048 ISBN 13: 9781612193045

Publisher: MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING, 2013

Synopsis

Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed """"penmanship nut"""" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So upon discovering that schools today forego handwriting drills, it gave her pause: """"There is a widespread belief that, in a digital world, forming letters on paper with a pen is pointless and obsolete."""" Florey tackles the importance of writing by hand and its place in an increasingly electronic society in this fascinating exploration of the history of handwriting. Weaving together the evolution of writing, she asks the question: is writing by hand really no longer necessary?

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Review:

"A witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting." --The Wall Street Journal

"This is a book every writer would love, a curio cabinet on the art and act of writing." --AMY TAN, author of Saving Fish from Drowning

"[H]ighly enjoyable...witty and often endearingly autobiographical." --MICHAEL DIRDA, Washington Post

"[A] charming, illustrated eulogy to a craft that's fast losing its place in the modern world." --Financial Times

"Florey's argument is nostalgic yet pragmatic. 'It seems wrong, ' she says, 'when something beautiful, useful, and historically important vanishes.' Charmingly composed and handsomely presented, Script and Scribble just might provoke a handwriting revival." --Boston Globe

"Florey lovingly traces the history of handwriting, from its ancient birth to its imminent demise."
--SAM ANDERSON, New York Magazine

"[A] winsome mix of memoir and call to arms...an entertaining history." --Editor's Choice, Chicago Tribune

"Part memoir, part meticulously researched primer [this] captivating history of handwriting is a lovely ode to a nearly lost art." --Ready Made

About the Author:

KITTY BURNS FLOREY is the author of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. She has also written nine novels--most recently, The Writing Master--and many short stories and essays. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1612193048
• ISBN 13: 9781612193045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208