Gay Talese - Typography - First Mac

Gay Talese's First Mac: The Godfather of Literary Journalism on His Secret Love of Typography







The writing craft between an Olivetti typewriter, 512 kB of memory, and a pad of yellow legal paper.

Quote:

Great writers seem to hold the physical act of writing with especial reverence — Susan Sontag with her soft spot for felt-tip pens, Mary Gordon with her love of notebooks and writing by hand, Maya Angelou and her blue pencil. That’s precisely why it’s at once disorienting and delightful to find out that Gay Talese — godfather of literary journalism, sage of the writing craft, chronicler of New York’s cats, man of creative discipline — harbors a secret passion for typography. In A Writer’s Life (public library), he recounts the story of how he acquired his first Macs, propelled by the love of typography...

(BrainPickings)

via ehMac.ca http://www.ehmac.ca/showthread.php?t=107834&goto=newpost