Writing on a typewriter is a transient thing, like a short-lived but brightly burning and clamorous love affair. Once the thing is written, the paper is removed from the typewriter and the two things ...

Cormac McCarthy, author of cheery favorites such as The Road and Blood Meridian, is about to trade in the typewriter he used to write them. The Olivetti Lettera 32 has been in his care for 46 years, ...

The monk and poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92) used his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter to fuse art and writing in concrete poetry. Born in 1924 he worked in Army Intelligence in India, Sri Lanka ...

Typewriter; Olivetti portable; Lettera 32 model, serial no. 8205845; blue and black zippered flexible vinyl case; green mechanically operated machine with black keys marked by white characters.

Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of the C20th concrete poet and Catholic mystic, also a prominent figure in the early gay liberation scene The monk and poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92) used ...