Cormac McCarthy, author of cheery favorites such as The Road and Blood Meridian, is about to trade in the typewriter he used to write them. The Olivetti Lettera 32 has been in his care for 46 years, ...

A machine that once belonged to a Times journalist has been present during wars, natural disasters and more. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times ...

Typewriter; Olivetti portable; Lettera 32 model, serial no. 8205845; blue and black zippered flexible vinyl case; green mechanically operated machine with black keys marked by white characters.

You might think of the portable typewritter as a forerunner of the computer but its actually far closer to writing than word-processing. A line could be drawn; starting more than 2 millenia ago, with ...