This essay is part of a collection of Lore Segal’s work, to be published by Melville House. I was not keeping a journal in the fifth form at Guildford High School the year my fountain pen went missing ...

Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness. Each stroke is intentional. They are finicky and need to be handled gently. But their finickiness is what infuses even banal tasks with thoughtfulness.

For Rob Franciosi, coming to the fountain pen later in scholarly life has been a revelation. For the past two years, during the twilight of my academic career, I have become a devotee of the fountain ...

I nabbed another fountain pen quickly after college and used it daily for a few years. But it was when I turned 30 that I found my pride and joy: the Lamy 2000.

After he buys a fountain pen, Mr. Fiedler typically won’t use it until he has sent it off to have its nib altered by Japanese craftsmen like Yukio Nagahara or Mike Masuyama.