Curmudgeons, especially literary ones, make lively interview subjects. Remember Ray Bradbury’s declaration, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday last month, that “we’ve got too many Internets”?

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter—or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric—are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

It’s easy to forget how much time computer word-processing programs have saved the writing public. Before computers, any typewritten document that needed revision had to be retyped again and again.