That's actually the story of how I got my first typewriter. On the story 'These Are The Meditations Of My Heart' Short of carving words into stone with a hammer and chisel, not much is more permanent than a paragraph or a sentence or a love letter or a story typed on paper." Interview Highlights Now that means everything from a shopping list to James Joyce's Ulysses. "And that one thing is to translate the thoughts in your head down to paper. "There's something about – I don't know, it's a hex in my brain – there is something I find reassuring, comforting, dazzling in that here is a very specific apparatus that is meant to do one thing, and it does it perfectly," he says. And in talking to Hanks, you learn that his thing with typewriters is not a gimmick – more like a love affair.
Fittingly, the book is called Uncommon Type. Sometimes the typewriter is a plot device sometimes it really does feel almost hidden. I don't want them to say, 'What are we gonna do with dad's typewriters?'" I don't want these to be a burden to my children when I kick the bucket. "You want one? I should have brought one for you and the staff, just to help out, man. "I have too many typewriters, David," he says, beginning a riff. In every story, Hanks sneaks in the machine he's so obsessed with - the typewriter. It's a collection of short stories, with varied subjects: a World War II veteran on Christmas Eve in 1953, a California surfer kid who makes an unsettling discovery.
Now he's taking us on a journey on the page: Tom Hanks has written a book. How?Īctor Tom Hanks has made us believe he can be anyone and do anything on the big screen. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Uncommon Type Subtitle Some Stories Author Tom Hanks and Kevin Twomey
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