TypeTown #45: “Drink till you write well and feel sick.”

🇵🇹 Fernando Pessoa and an extraordinary life of secret work

Mar 27

6

2

2

February 2026

TypeTown #44: “I have entirely stopped using the typewriter.”

✍️ Mark Twain and the first novel produced on the type slugs

Feb 13

9

4

January 2026

TypeTown #43: “Everyone is a bore to someone.”

🇪🇸 Gerald Brenan on keeping busy in the Alpujarras mountains

Jan 16

8

4

December 2025

TypeTown #42: “I am so bored by AI.”

🎅 This Christmas, Ethan Hawke says what we're all thinking...

Dec 24, 2025

13

8

2

July 2023

TypeTown #41: “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

🐷 George Orwell, Milan Kundera, Ulla West, and more...

Jul 23, 2023

12

3

TypeTown #40: “If I don't measure up... at least leave me to my delusion.”

🇺🇸 Philip Roth, Mary McCarthy, Ray Zill, more...

Jul 2, 2023

14

4

2

June 2023

TypeTown #39: “I suppose I'm a hold-out from another era.”

💷 Martin Amis, Klas Ostergren, William Bortz, and more...

Jun 18, 2023

14

2

1

May 2023

TypeTown #38: “I can't write without a reader.”

💋 John Cheever, Philip Wylie, Olivia de Havilland, and more...

May 21, 2023

8

6

1

TypeTown #37: “I don’t understand the process of imagination.”

📁 Joseph Heller, Alda Merini, Damon Runyon, and more...

May 8, 2023

8

2

1

April 2023

TypeTown #36: "I play with words. I lose, I win. It makes no difference."

🇧🇷 Lygia Fagundes Telles, John Cleese, Julieta Vitullo, and more...

Apr 21, 2023

13

7

2

TypeTown #35: "At the typewriter you find out who you are."

🗞 Tom Robbins, Harlan Ellison, Leslie Nichols, and more...

Apr 2, 2023

14

March 2023

TypeTown #34: "All writers are crazy. Even the normal ones are weird."

🎬 William Goldman, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sarah Y. Mason, Babe Ruth, and more...

Mar 17, 2023

12

6