The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
11th Feb

by Lindy West

Am I making this up? I feel like every time someone uses the word “hobo” to mean “homeless person,” somebody else has to climb up on their high horse and don their semantics cap and start getting highfalutin all over town about how “a hobo is someone who rides the rails in the Great Depression…”

16th Dec

by Lindy West

A Guide to Life for the Recent Graduate.

22nd Jul

by Lindy West

I watched 146 minutes of Sex and the City 2, and all I got was this religious fundamentalism.