A Literary History of Word Processing

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

I clipped this piece from the NY Times when it came out in December,
then forgot about it:

http://nyti.ms/rZP4Nl

It features a forthcoming book by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, a
professor of English at the University of Maryland, to be called
"Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing". From the
article:

"... literary scholars have become increasingly interested in
studying how the tools of writing both shape literature and are
reflected in it, whether it's the quill pen of the Romantic poets or
the early round typewriter, known as a writing ball, that Friedrich
Nietzsche used to compose some aphoristic fragments. ...

"Mr. Kirschenbaum ... said he was less interested in analyzing the
stylistic impact of word processing than in recovering its early
history, particularly its adoption by mainstream writers."

No mention of XyWrite in the article, but I assume that it will
figure in the book.

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Carl Distefano
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