Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...

Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...

Scope and Contents The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a newsroom full of Underwoods to the more muted...