Beautiful Gifts for Writers

Delight the writer in your life with beautiful gifts for a more elegant desk or reading room. Gold-stamped typewriter notecards from Charles Fradin Home recall the exquisite pleasure of writing by hand. Because no one should be writing letters to their agent on Motel 6 stationery. Seriously.

 

No writer’s library is complete without the classic handbook of simplicity and elegance in writing, Strunk & White’s Elements of Style. The 50th Anniversary Edition looks as good as it reads. (I’m pretty sure there was something dramatically tragic about that last sentence.)

Roy Blount’s take on it is characteristically dashing (although I’m fairly certain the authors would not use the term dashing in this context):“Since high school, I have kept a copy of this book handy. That should be unnecessary. I should, by now, have fully internalized The Elements of Style. But sometimes I get entangled in a paragraph that refuses to be ‘clear, brief, bold.’ I dip back into The Elements of Style and am refreshed.”After Scott Simon interviewed me on NPR about whether the word ‘e-mail’ needs a hyphen (yes, it does), some listeners, including friends of mine, wondered why I had answered in the affirmative when asked, in passing, ‘Are you a drunken white man?’ Those listeners misheard. ‘Strunk and White man’ was what Scott said.”
For the Jane Austen fan in your life: the seven volume Jane Austen boxed set. “She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

What better way to begin your magnum opus, or step into National Novel Writing Month, than with this set of 12 foil-stamped journals.

 

 

Oh, sure, what writer hasn’t done Paris…and done it again? But what about the great back yard. This leather United States travel journal from One Kings Lane is a worthy place to ooh and ahh about the Grand Canyon or share your tales of Route 66.