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Grumpy Old Man to Auction Battered Old Typewriter


by Jerome Weeks 1 Dec 2009 9:13 AM

It’s news because it’s Cormac McCarthy’s portable Olivetti, which he used to write a dozen novels, several screenplays and short stories, plus countless letters. The New York Times reports that Christie’s will be auctioning the 46-year-old machine — now that a friend of McCarthy’s bought him a new one like it.
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About Jerome Weeks

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

COMMENTS

  • Bill Marvel

    He writes on a typewriter? I thought he chiseled in stone.

  • Sorry to break it to you, Bill, but Cormac McCarthy is not God.

  • Sami

    Sorry to be a nitpicker, but the typewriter in the picture is a Lettera 22. McCarthy uses a Lettera 32.