Michael Thorn's photoblogNo typewriter for old men: Cormac McCarthy to part with beloved Olivetti
Cormac McCarthy to part with beloved typewriter | Books | The Guardian
The machine, which he bought in a Tennessee pawnshop for $50 in 1963, is beginning to betray understandable symptoms of old age and hard usage. If the Lettera 32 had hooves, it would have been dragged out to meet the bolt gun years ago. “It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose,” said the writer. “I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence, I would put this at about 5m words over a period of 50 years.
Charis Wilson obituary | Art and design | The Guardian
The photographer Edward Weston’s great muse who inspired some of his finest work
Holiday in New York
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NYC, November 2009.
Rockefeller Center, NYC, November 2009.
On the taxi ride to JFK Airport for our flight home to San Francisco, our Chinese…
My hero: Alan Ross by William Boyd
I also submitted several short stories to Alan Ross’s London Magazine in my twenties. Unlike William Boyd, none of mine was accepted, but I DID always get an encouraging reponse from Ross, and on a couple of occasions the tantalising ‘almost’.
There’s a good photo of Ross at the head of this piece, taken by Joe Waldorf.
nice song and video
Heaven Can Wait
Actors
Aubine, San Francisco, November 2009.
During the last few weeks, I’ve had the greatest pleasure photographing actors at…
People crossing
From series Crossing, San Francisco, August 2007.
Can anything be more painfully mundane than crossing the street? It’s not even an event or a moment worth…
Frozen: A cemetery in Colma
Tombstone medallions, Colma, August 2007.
The city of Colma is the only city in the Bay Area that has more dead people than alive. So goes the joke….
