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Royal Empress Takes a Hammering
It's not often a typewriter hits the news on national television, but it happened last week when SBS Australia announced an upcoming Sotheby's Australia auction. Among the items to be auctioned, those from writer Colleen McCullough's estate. For more, see this Sydney Morning Herald article. A focus of the news report was the late author's … Continue reading Royal Empress Takes a Hammering
Alma Karlin
Born in Slovenia, but raised as a German, Alma Karlin (12 October 1889 – 15 January 1950) was a world traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist. Following the Nazi occupation of Slovenia during World War Two, Alma joined the partisan guerrilla movement and was imprisoned in Celje in 1941. Alma and her Erika typewriter. … Continue reading Alma Karlin
Le mot juste
Vladimir Nabokov's mention (in his partial-autobiography Speak, Memory) of the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's debut novel Madame Bovary (1857) as "unsurpassed", led me to read it and see whether his use of the superlative was justified. It was. Having read the book for the first time I can see Flaubert may have had more than … Continue reading Le mot juste
EZ Writer
With a quiet typing action and a top speed of 14 cps, the Silver Reed EZ 20 is poetry in motion ... There's an indirect link between this typewriter and Australian poet Les Murray’s poem ‘The Privacy of Typewriters’: Les Murray's Brother (Deluxe 762 TR) ~ As revealed in an ABC National Radio "The Science … Continue reading EZ Writer
The E Wasteland
"T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland not only featured a typist as one of its figures, Eliot's actual typing of the poem on three different typewriters proved the key by which Lawrence Rainey unlocked the history of the text and accurately reconstructed the different episodes' order of composition. Would such a coup have been possible if Eliot … Continue reading The E Wasteland
Canon Fodder (Part Six)
I finally found an instruction guide for my Canon AP-1500 electronic typewriter. In order to purchase the instruction guide I had to purchase the AP-1500 typewriter that came with it ($15 AUD), and then ask the seller not to ship the typewriter since I already own an AP-1500 given to me for FREE in March last … Continue reading Canon Fodder (Part Six)
Track Changes
A recent purchase I enjoyed reading on my Amazon Kindle is Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Harvard University Press, 2016), an entertaining, well-written and thoroughly researched book. "There have been popular treatises and academic studies of reading digitally, there have been populist rants and jeremiads [...] But whereas e-books and e-reading devices did not … Continue reading Track Changes
Typewriter Hunter
Like other largely unknown (in the West) Eastern European writers, Emiliyan Stanev came to my attention via a commemorative postage stamp and first day cover ... Emiliyan Stanev (Емилиян Станев) was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (28 February 1907 – 15 March 1979), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Stanev was born in Veliko Tarnovo in … Continue reading Typewriter Hunter
Fink Again
At the time of its release, Hail Caesar! was described as a sister film to Barton Fink, with both stories set at Capitol Pictures, roughly a decade apart; however, Hail Caesar! is a very different movie. Lighter in mood and much shorter in duration than its "sister film", this typewriter nerd also noted that Hail Caesar! is completely … Continue reading Fink Again
