This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

You might expect that email and the ballpoint pen had killed the fountain pen. But sales are rising, so is the fountain pen a curious example of an old-fashioned object surviving the winds of change?

In late January, an oblong package from her showed up at my door. It was the TWSBI Diamond 580ALR, a sleek but hefty fountain pen with an aluminum grip and a finely engraved metal nib, the kind ...

The two dove headfirst into the online community of fountain-pen enthusiasts and started producing informational videos, blog posts and reviews, all in the name of becoming a trusted resource.

Inc., thousands of people all but trampled one another last week to spend $12.50 each for a new fountain pen. The pen was made by Chicago’s Reynolds International Pen Co. In full-page ads ...