I've known writer and editor Ed Park for some 25 years, thanks to our mutual interest in eccentric mystery writer
Harry Stephen Keeler. He's just published
Same Bed Different Dreams, a delightful and multilayered novel about Korean (alt-)history, a Korean war vet who writes SF, a tech company called GLOAT, the assassination of President McKinley, and the Buffalo Sabres hockey team, among other things.
Ed was recently interviewed on Mark Hurst's "Techtonic," a show on WFMU that's appropriately suspicious and critical of the influence of Big Tech on our lives. You can listen here (I recommend clicking on "Pop-up Player"). At 34:10, Ed describes his use of a typewriter.
(Transcribed on my Royal FP with
Patrician type.)
Ed kindly shared this portrait of himself at his Lettera 22, along with a couple of typescript pages for Same Bed Different Dreams.
No, Ed did not compose his entire 500+-page novel on a typewriter, but it is a valuable part of his drafting and brainstorming process. As he says, you don't have to be a Luddite to appreciate a variety of technologies and benefit from the opportunities they offer us.
