Photos Of Famous Authors With Their Typewriters

flavorwire.com:

There’s something magical about catching a glimpse of one of your favorite authors at work – even a photo of the epic event can send an anxious thrill down your spine, as if you might be able to see some hint of literary genius in posture or setting, in attire or facial expression. And it’s even better if they’re working on a typewriter.

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Comments

[Ljilja]

12:36 PM on 04/06/2011

A computer just isn't the same, is it?

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[besideastillcreek]

01:55 PM on 04/06/2011

Beautiful! Your writing brought back childhood memories with my grandmother. Thank you.

[Bill Dodds]

11:00 PM on 04/04/2011

As someone who has been writing professionally since the days of carbon paper, I suspect those who find a typewriter even remotely "romantic" now never wrote a manuscript draft on one and then had to retype the whole book for a clean copy for a publisher, agent, or transom. I don't miss mine but I did dearly love it when I bought it -- brand new! -- the summer I turned 16. An Olympia portable with pica type. I felt only joy ditching it for a computer: a Radio Shack TRS-80. What a miracle machine . . . at the time.

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[naschkatze]

02:12 PM on 04/04/2011

No Jack Kerouac?

[Sunflo]

06:23 AM on 04/05/2011

or James Baldwin.

[rickthaluddite]

01:17 PM on 04/04/2011

This picture of Hunter S. Thompson should have been included.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__mokxbTmuJM/SIYrrl0YrPI/AAAAAAAAB8U/riQZrQ5XREg/s400/hunter-s-shoot-typewriter.jpg

[c-tom]

11:56 AM on 04/04/2011

What's a typewriter?

[naschkatze]

02:13 PM on 04/04/2011

LOL