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EPISODE · Feb 13, 2026 · 6 MIN

On Typewriters

from A Writer's Diary Podcast · host Toby Litt

Today I'm talking about typewriters - not my current means of production, but definitely where I first began.What are the virtues of bashing out a sentence on a mechanical typewriter of the sort Tom Hanks would lust after? And what are the downsides of fitting yourself in to a stereotypical image of The Writer? Get full access to A Writer's Diary at awritersdiary.substack.com/subscribe

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