Tag: type-in

• Scenes from another Evanston type-in

  Putting on a type-in last year was a lot of fun, so I was happy to be asked by the Evanston Literary Festival to host one again. This year it was at my favorite secondhand bookstore in Evanston: Squeezebox Books & Music. Rather than setting the typewriters at a table together for a shared typing…

  May 20, 2019

  # Evanston, Hermes 3000, Judge John Hodgman, Olympia SM7, Skyriter, Smith-Corona, Squeezebox, The Typewriter Revolution, type-in, typewriters

• Scenes from an Evanston type-in

  The Evanston Literary Festival graciously facilitated me hosting a type-in at the Bookends & Beginnings bookstore yesterday. I was there with my typewriters for about two and a half hours and had about 20-30 people sit down to type during that time. It was a good mix of people old enough to be familiar with…

  May 20, 2018

  # Bookends & Beginnings, bookstores, Evanston, type-in, typewriters