Book review of The Typing Lady by Ruth Ozeki

The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter

Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to do with typewriters, but everything to do with imminence. I bought the first one in 2023, on April Fool’s Day. The pandemic was only just behind us, we were gearing up for another presidential election, and a few months earlier OpenAI had launched GPT-4…

Book review of The Typing Lady by Ruth Ozeki

The Typing Lady, a collection of 11 stories published over the past two decades, is a welcome addition to Ruth Ozeki’s playful, inimitable oeuvre.