The Quietus | Features | Low Culture | A Kind Of Music: Kat Lister On The Olivetti Typewriter
Kat Lister , May 17th, 2021 09:49 In our monthly subscribers only essay, Kat Lister discusses how finishing her first book and a year of being locked down alone steered her towards buying a typewriter, only to discover these machines are going through something of a reversal of fortunes. Homepage photograph: the author's portrait of her own Olivetti Valentine Kat Lister When I was a child I would often fall asleep to the sound of metal typebars hammering on paper. The clack clack clack of words in motion. A cacophony of heavy blows and jabs that ricocheted from wall to wall like linguistic b...
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