About The Electric Typewriter

About the Site

For more than a decade, The Electric Typewriter has been searching the net’s best publications, websites, forums, feeds and newsletters to help our visitors and subscribers find outstanding nonfiction writing. It's a unique nonfiction resource that is visited by hundreds of thousands of readers, students and teachers each year.

We focus on quality writing that stays fresh, insightful and engaging years after publication. Our lists feature exciting new voices alongside established authors, and recent writing together with classic journalism from the past 50 years.

The site is made up of 100+ handmade subject and author pages with links to longform journalism, articles and essays about every possible subject — from science and technology, psychology, politics, crime, computers, AI, the internet and the environment, to life, death, love and sex, travel, sport, music, food and more — plus the best personal essays and memoir.

We've been featured on Lifehacker, NPR, The Times, Atlas Obscura, The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, Book Riot, Good, The Atlantic, Asterisk and the BBC.