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Equip yourself with these books and join the insurgency against the all-digital mindset.

The Typewriter Revolution

Craving your first typewriter? Curious about the creative possibilities? Want to join the movement?

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION is your field guide to the 21st-century typewritten world.

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evertype

The narrator of EVERTYPE has wrenched himself loose from everything he’d become. Now he’s retreated to a forgotten town, armed only with a bike and a twentieth-century writing machine. Does he stand a chance of escaping the surveillance, terror, disease, and demagoguery of our times?

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the classic typewriter page

Online since 1995, this site has become a center for the love of typewriters and their history. Find user manuals, photos of famous writers with their favorite writing machines, repair shops from around the world … even download free typewriter fonts like the one you’re seeing right now.

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THE typewriter MANIFESTO

The credo of the insurgency. The fist of resistance against the Paradigm. Read it, type it, live by it.

Check out The Typewriter Revolution Manifesto in over a dozen languages. Your language not covered? Type it out, take a photo and email me. I’ll post it here.

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by Richard Polt | Sep 16, 2026 | Uncategorized

Posting on typewriterrevolution.com is slow and awkward, and I have never gotten many comments here. So from now on, if you'd like to follow this blog, please do so at writingball.blogspot.com. Old posts will continue to reside both here and there, but for new...

Call for submissions: MAINSPRINGS

Sep 15, 2026 | Uncategorized

Call for submissions MAINSPRINGSTales of Typewriters in the Age of AI edited byRichard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters published byLoose Dog Press mainspring, n.: a typewriter’s reserve of potential energy, waiting to...

AI knocking on my door

Sep 15, 2026 | artificial intelligence

AI in 1988: a typewritten report

Aug 30, 2026 | artificial intelligence

A few years ago, a typewriter came to me—a Smith-Corona electric portable, I believe—with a variety of papers inside the case. They included a brief report on artificial intelligence, written by Sharon T. in 1988. It's just a few pages long, but it offers an...

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See California Typewriter

DIRECTED by Doug Nichol

THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION appears in this film along with Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, and others who love and enjoy typewriters. See this film and be inspired to discover an analog world lurking under the digital surface of our century.