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    Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

    Gabrielle Bellot

    January 21, 2025, 4:10am

    There’s much to say today and this week, particularly for those of you in the United States, as we brace ourselves for the turbulence and tumult of a grinningly authoritarian, grinningly small-minded and small-hearted regime taking control of America’s government. For many of us, this is a frightening, unsettling time.

    But for now, I want to focus, instead, on something that hasn’t changed: the fact that there will always be new books to look forwards to. Amidst all the chaos, there are bright lights in book form, including work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from a number of beloved and respected names, as well as some striking names to watch for the future. I’ve selected twenty-two to turn your attention to, as we could all use some literary companionship right about now.

    If you can, head into a physical bookstore, especially if you haven’t visited one in some time, or go, perhaps, to bookshop you’ve never stepped into before. Just being around so many tomes, including these new marvels below, can be a brief bit of healing in of itself, at least for a few moments. Take in the scents, the sounds, the curves of the aisles, the way shelves and selves are arranged.

    And, if you can’t go to a bookstore, consider re-immersing yourself in your own collection for a bit, taking some moments to just sit and be with the books you’ve kept with you thus far. These little moments are important, especially when the world is too much.

    Keep yourselves safe, Dear Readers. And let these literary lights show you a way through the murk.

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    We Do Not Part - Kang, Han

    Han Kang, We Do Not Part (trans. E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris)
    (Hogarth Press)

    “A disquietingly beautiful novel about the impossibility of waking up from the nightmare of history. Hang Kang’s prose, as delicate as footprints in the snow or a palimpsest of shadows, conjures up the specters haunting a nation, a family, a friendship. Unforgettable.”
    –Hernan Diaz

    Something Rotten - Lipstein, Andrew

    Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
    (FSG)

    “[F]ascinating…tense….The revelations, when they come, are satisfying, and meaty considerations of ethics and truth round out the novel’s entertaining depiction of an American innocent abroad and his European Svengali. This razor-sharp morality tale is Lipstein’s best yet.”
    Publishers Weekly

    A Terrifying Brush with Optimism: New and Selected Stories - Leung, Brian

    Brian Leung, A Terrifying Brush with Optimism: New and Selected Stories
    (Sarabande Books)

    “A new collection of works from Lambda Literary Award and Asian American Literary Award winner Brian Leung. A Terrifying Brush of Optimism includes short stories, an essay, and a novel exploring what it means to keep one’s dignity in a contemporary world that seems so intent on stripping that away from us.”
    Book Riot

    I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots - Alford, Henry

    Henry Alford, I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
    (Gallery Books)

    “Henry Alford gathered everything there is to know about Joni Mitchell and then distilled it all into the most fascinating, entertaining, and significant stories. Like its subject, I Dream of Joni is artful and inventive. Alford leaps from decade to decade, backwards and forwards, making the reader a (happy) captive on a carousel of time. The result is exactly what a genius like Joni Mitchell deserves—a biography that feels unfettered and alive.”
    –Nell Scovell

    Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays - Dai, Thomas

    Thomas Dai, Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
    (Norton)

    “With a deep depth of heart and a meditative intelligence, Thomas Dai intricately charts a course through complex questions of identity, culture, history, and queerness. This is a book to savor and Thomas Dai is a writer to follow.”
    –Alex Marzano-Lesenevich

    The White Peril: A Family Memoir - Moses, Omo

    Omo Moses, The White Peril: A Family Memoir
    (Beacon Press)

    “Intricately crafted, and a riveting read, this unputdownable whirlwind journeys through five generations of a Black family fighting for Black liberation, and a young man fighting to traverse the rocky distance between father and son…this moving memoir has achieved Omo’s stated goal—’to let poetry sit side by side, sit inside the story.’ Omo has granted us a glimpse into the psyche of young Black manhood, and a window into the mind of his father, the brilliant visionary, Robert P. Moses.”
    –Lisa Delpit

    Strange Beach: Poems - Olayiwola, Oluwaseun

    Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach: Poems
    (Soft Skull)

    “It’s hard to believe Oluwaseun Olayiwola’s Strange Beach is a debut collection. The poems in this gorgeous and deft book about the queer body, race, family and coming-of-age, seem to toggle between identities, between not knowing and wanting to know, between remaining on shore and being washed over….Strange Beach is intimate, capacious, present, and absent, and always consistently brilliant.”
    –Victoria Chang

    The Choreic Period: Poems - Ba, Latif Askia

    Latif Askia Ba, The Choreic Period: Poems
    (Milkweed Editions)

    “Latifa Askia Ba wields the period like a composer’s baton, creating rhythms that affect change at the somatic level. To read The Choreic Period is to breathe differently….Through the intense particularity of the syntax of the ever-humbling disability within and without language, The Choreic Period bears witness to the universal disability of beings locked within what it means to be human. The Choreic Period is a pulling—of stars from drains.”
    –M. NourbeSe Philip

    The Wickedest - Femi, Caleb

    Caleb Femi, The Wickedest
    (MCD)

    The Wickedest by the young British Nigerian poet-filmmaker Caleb Femi is a mesmerizing journey through the different moments of one night’s revelry. A heady mix of the formal and urbane, the sacred and mundane….The vivid pictures punctuating the book lend it a cinematic scope, immersing you in a unique cultural experience. The Wickedest is a hypnotic, experiential happening of a book—essential reading for all.”
    –Roger Robinson

    Save Me, Stranger: Stories - Krouse, Erika

    Erika Krouse, Save Me, Stranger: Stories
    (Flatiron Books)

    “Thought-provoking….[Krouse’s] fiction is as gripping as any unsolved mystery. She writes with bold, confident, literary strokes that shift between fast-paced plot points and quieter, often unsettling psychological moments, which all move toward a vision of something vital, transient, and worth chasing after…Each of the twelve stories has a wholeness and precision that showcase Krouse’s wonderful grasp of craftsmanship.”
    Library Journal

    Mona Acts Out - Berlinski, Mischa

    Mischa Berlinski, Mona Acts Out
    (Liveright)

    “Mischa Berlinski has written an instant-classic New York novel about theater, aging, sex and love, and the promise and price of life’s second acts.”
    –Joshua Cohen

    The New Internationals - Faladé, David Wright

    David Wright Faladé, The New Internationals
    (Atlantic Monthly Press)

    “Faladé draws out the psychological pressures faced by his characters…[and] unflinchingly portrays the messy legacy of colonialism and the implications of crossing the color line. This nuanced historical is worth a look.”
    Publishers Weekly

    Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir - Zusak, Markus

    Markus Zusak, Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir
    (Harper)

    “Zusak’s garrulous style gives appropriate spotlight to his furry subjects (a few cats are involved too), celebrating their indomitable spirits in a convivial, all-but-exasperated tone. [His] innate humor jostles readers throughout, creating a wholly different page-turning experience from the epic nature of his fiction….Zusak mines for the truth the title intimates that those touched by a dog will all agree: we are changed for having known them.”
    Booklist

    How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty - Reichert, Bonny

    Bonny Reichert, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
    (Ballantine Books)

    “Bonny Reichert’s stunning memoir is proof of the power of hope in the face of epigenetic sorrow, and how the human soul and spirit hew inexorably to healing, sustenance, and life. The need to sustain oneself and one’s loved ones is pervasive here, and Reichert’s ability to weave together a seamless story about food, love, and withering tragedy is masterful. I was captivated.”
    –Elissa Altman

    The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood - Martin, Kristen

    Kristen Martin, The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of Orphanhood
    (Bold Type Books)

    “A deeply compassionate, rigorously researched, and passionately argued exploration of the gap between the myths and realities of American orphanhood. This searing history left me outraged, enlightened, and full of deepened conviction that we need to keep peeling away our collective American mythologies in order to reckon with our hardest truths.”
    –Leslie Jamison

    To Save the Man - Sayles, John

    John Sayles, To Save the Man
    (Melville House)

    “Set in 1890, the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre, John Sayles’s novel, To Save the Man, is a story of a culture taken. At the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, young Native Americans find themselves having to negotiate the demands of assimilation against the ways of life they’ve always known. A master storyteller, Sayles reminds us of the cost of history on the individual life. This blend of fact and invention makes for an unforgettable read.”
    –Lee Martin

    Call Her Freedom - Dorabji, Tara

    Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom
    (Simon & Schuster)

    Call Her Freedom is a mythic tale of one woman’s family surviving inside another culture of massive, brutal power. The story parallels conflicts in Guatemala, Nazi Europe, and the Confederate South. Set in South Asia, its prose reads both dreamily faraway and realistically close—a beautiful strength that can only be attributed to Dorabji’s impeccable talent.”
    –Dagoberto Gilb

    Nobody's Empire - Murdoch, Stuart

    Stuart Murdoch, Nobody’s Empire
    (Harpervia)

    “The frontman of Belle & Sebastian recreates his younger years here in wonderfully limpid prose that looks at music and art and life and gives an insight into his struggles with ME [myalgic encephalomyelitis].”
    The Scottish Herald

    Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis - Goffe, Tao Leigh

    Tao Leigh Goffe, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
    (Doubleday Books)

    Dark Laboratory is stunning, brilliant and transformative. With a vast archive and a mighty pen, Tao Leigh Goffe tells the story of modernity and its discontents through the land, legacy, and people of the Caribbean. Upon reading this book, you will have a new understanding of the world.”
    –Imani Perry

    Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome - Osgood, Josiah

    Josiah Osgood, Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
    (Basic Books)

    “The last bloody decades of the Roman Republic offer a veritable catalogue of crime. Josiah Osgood examines this rich material with the insight of a skilled historian and the keen scrutiny of a true crime detective. Even Cicero does not emerge unscathed. The result is a fresh look at one of history’s most compelling eras, more relevant to Americans today than ever before.”
    –Steven Saylor

    Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union - Carwardine, Richard

    Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
    (Knopf)

    “There is no greater interpreter of how religious thought and imagery shaped Abraham Lincoln’s statecraft than Richard Carwardine, who has now turned his attention to broader questions of how a clash of theological worldviews gave us what Lincoln called ‘a new birth of freedom.’ With grace and insight, Carwardine sheds new and important light on issues of perennial significance in America’s past—and present.”
    –Jon Meacham

    Strange Stones - Lee, Edward

    Edward Lee, Mary Sangiovanni, Strange Stones
    (Clash Books)

    “An immersive, visceral, and existentially terrifying tale injected with just the right amount of satire.”
    Booklist

    Here’s how you can continue to help people in Gaza.

    Dan Sheehan

    January 17, 2025, 1:16pm

    With news coming in earlier today that Israel’s security cabinet has, after some delay, ratified the Gaza ceasefire agreement, it looks as if the carnage that has enveloped the strip for over fifteen months will, on Sunday, finally come to an end.

    For surviving Palestinians in the brutalized enclave, all of whom have had to endure a level of trauma most of us would be unable to fathom, the cessation of hostilities is only the first step on a long and painful road back to something resembling normalcy.

    Over the past 467 days, tens of thousands of Palestinians have died violent deaths (almost 18,000 of them children) at the hands of the Israeli military. More than 100,000 have been wounded (with an estimated 22,500 suffering “life-altering” injuries). Almost all of the region’s 2.2 million people have been displaced, in most cases multiple times, and are suffering from “acute food insecurity.” The region’s infrastructure—medical, educational, cultural, recreational, agricultural, religious—has been decimated. 92 percent of all homes have been damaged or destroyed.

    In short: the grieving, traumatized survivors of the Gazan genocide have been left with nothing, and they’ll need our help, for many months and years to come, in order to rebuild their lives. We, the citizens of countries whose leaders sponsored and defended this nightmare, owe them that much at least.

    Here are some ways you can help right now:

     

    Mutual Aid Organizations

    Gaza Funds is a project that connects people to verified crowdfunding campaigns for individuals and families in Gaza. Consider adopting a fundraiser and sharing it among your friends and colleagues.

    The Sameer Project is a grassroots aid organization, led by four Palestinians in the diaspora, working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza.

    Workshops for Gaza is a group of autonomous writers, artists, and educators organizing donation-based workshops and classes to raise money for Palestinians in Gaza.

     

    Larger Aid Organizations

    Medical Aid for Palestinians is on the ground in Gaza where they are working to stock hospitals with essential drugs, disposables, and other healthcare supplies.

    Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine. They deliver crucial, life-saving medical and humanitarian aid on the ground.

    The Palestine Red Crescent Society is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency services in the West Bank and Gaza. Dozens of its staff members have been killed by Israeli military attacks over the past 15 months.

    The World Food Program has been distributing fresh bread, canned food and ready-to-eat food to those who sought refuge in United Nations Relief and Works Agency shelters in Gaza.

    Doctors Without Borders is providing support to hospitals and health facilities in Gaza.

    UNRWA is providing medical support, trauma relief, and food assistance on the ground in Gaza.

    The Middle East Children’s Alliance works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment, and education. Their team are providing emergency assistance to displaced families in Gaza.

    Heal Palestine helps Palestinian children with severe injuries and amputations evacuate Gaza to get lifesaving treatment.

    Project Hope is providing support to operate a primary health clinic in Deir Al Balah and to build a medical team in Rafah in response to the ongoing humanitarian emergency.

    On the immortality of David Lynch.

    Brittany Allen

    January 17, 2025, 1:05pm

    High-school is Twin Peaks. All the cool girls are Audrey for Halloween, eerily twisting in pencil skirts. Unless they’re the Log Lady. Every cup of coffee is “damn good.”

    College is Blue Velvet country. At every party, some bro will parrot Dennis Hopper when the keg runs dry. (“Heineken? F*ck that sh*t. Pabst. Blue. Ribbon!”) Before any of that we get the OG Paul Atreides, soiling his space suit as Frank Herbert intended. And though the maestro disowned this edit, your mother still jokes you have “Mentat eyebrows” certain mornings.

    David Lynch, the inimitable auteur, has died at 78. Known for psychosexual, dreamy masterpieces like Mulholland Drive, he was a peerless weirdo. A precise bard of the American uncanny, as fun to interpret as he was to be unsettled by. Praising his canon, peers and former colleagues have called him wizard, friend, and “imagination voyager.”

    In a moving Instagram tribute, Lynch’s longtime collaborator Kyle MacLachlan said “he was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.”

    Today I’m struck by the length of the director’s shadow. For as long as I’ve know of it, Lynch’s work has felt immortal. Those images and characters (fire) walk with you from room to room and dream to dream. They existed long before you moved to the suburbs. They’re hiding in the closet still, determined to outlive you.

    And as Patryk Chlastawa put it in a 2010 essay for The Point, the indelibility of, say, this scene is as much about theme as mood. “Lynch’s work confronts its audience with their own sense of helplessness and victimization,” he wrote. Which analysis helps explain how Lynch’s work, which is so often alarming or grotesque, managed to smack us teenagers sideways.

    As in high school, nobody in a Lynch film ever knows exactly where, why, or who they’re supposed to be.

    *

    In one of many nice remembrances this morning, John Semley of The New Republic recalled one of Lynch’s last screen appearances: a mega-meta cameo in Steven Spielberg’s self-mythologizing 2022 biopic, The Fabelmans. In a penultimate scene, Lynch chomps scenery—I mean, a cigar—behind an eye patch, cosplaying another great American director: John Ford.

    As Semley has it, here is “a master of American cinema playing a master of American cinema, in a film by another master of American cinema, about the genesis of his own cinematic mastery. A seemingly random, throwaway role, it typified Lynch’s approach to art and creativity… eccentric and unexpected.” It’s true that one could hardly imagine an apter career cap. Exit, pursued by a legacy.

    And on observing the explosion of a(n unmanned) SpaceX Starship shuttle yesterday, one brilliant BlueSky scout theorized that this could be the auteur’s true last will and testament. An uncanny and violent shock, “shot down from heaven.” Something to make you laugh. To freak you out. To wake you up.

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    Vampires, pranks and podcasts: here are some ideas to reboot 2025’s public domain books.

    James Folta

    January 16, 2025, 4:21pm

    The new year means new calendars you’ll stop using in a month, new resolutions you’ll break in a week, and new public domain works you can remix and ruin all year long. And in 2025, a lot of classics are escaping the shackles of copyright — Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a great list and a thorough explainer on the law, if you want to dig a little deeper.

    Some of these dusty 1929 books are just crying out for an exciting reboot for today’s fickle audiences. Here are a few ideas — and Hollywood? I’m waiting by the phone.

    A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

    Hemingway’s first best-seller has all the big Ernie tropes: spare style, courageous and conflicted men, and beautiful and tragic and tragically beautiful women. The novel follows an ambulance driver working on the Italian Front in WWI, as he grapples with war, God, and his love affair with a British nurse. Pretty standard stuff, I think we can do better.

    Any of the women in this book would be excellent characters for an Ahab’s Wife or Wide Sargasso Sea treatment, or could serve as the emotional center of a quiet, introspective novel where the nurse, Catherine, survives the war and her American lover, to live at the foot of the Swiss Alps with her child.

    But this could also go in a louder, more marketable direction: Catherine, sick of following around this perpetually wounded Hemingway stand-in, ditches him. Years later, she sees the same masculine tendencies exploding around her in Fascist Italy, and starts an antifascist group to resist Mussolini and his goons. I’m imagining a lot of cool biplane and train chase sequences taking visual cues from the Italian Futurists.

    Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley

    I would love to see an American Vandal style parody show satirizing cult documentaries, set in Crowley’s Thelema scene. Crowley’s self-seriousness makes for excellent comedy — the spelling “magick” alone is very funny.

    RIP Aleister, wish you had lived long enough to experience Hot Topic.

    The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

    A lot of great horror has been made by upturning the conventions of predominantly white, Southern stories and physically manifesting America’s worst sins in terrifying ways. Faulkner is perfect for this treatment — and you could definitely throw some vampires in there on top of the Compson’s financial and social collapse.

    But I think what’s interesting to me about doing a horror Sound and the Fury is its form: the book’s stream-of-consciousness style would make for a great spooky audio project. Getting inside someone’s head through a manic monologue while they’re running around trying avoid getting blood-drained by some Southern Nosferatu? I’m listening.

    Plus I know Hollywood will be into the franchise potential of a Yoknapatawpha County Cinematic Universe.

    Popeye by E. C. Segar

    An exact remake of HBO’s Girls, but Adam Driver’s character is Popeye played by Adam Driver.

    Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

    Red Harvest is one of my favorite of Hammett’s book, and I think it’s ripe for a reimagining. My understanding is that the book was inspired by real life IWW miners strikes and reprisals, and I would love to see the radical labor plot-lines put a little more front and center; Red Harvest’s main gumshoe, cynical and completely off-the-leash, is due for some comeuppance. Or maybe he renounces the Pinkertons after discovering a sense of solidarity and class awareness.

    And hey, toss some vampires and wolfmans in there too — people love that stuff.

    Encyclopædia Britannica (14th edition)

    The 14th edition had a murder’s row of contributors, which makes me think that an anthology show inspired by the entry writers and their subjects could make for an interesting series, or a wide-ranging novel like Benjamin Labatut’s When We Cease To Understand The World.

    But that’s not going to work for the TikTok set, so what about a prank show optimized for bite-sized social media clips: Every week, Encycl-Oh No-pedia Brat-annica takes an entry from the 14th edition as inspiration for a wacky prank. For the “Interferometer” episode, someone giving a presentation at work gets a bunch of laser pointers shined on them. For the “Diving, Deep Sea” episode, a family is tricked into thinking that they’re seeing real mermaids, but on closer inspection, they’re just D-List celebrities with fins. And it goes without saying that the “Harmonic Analysis” prank writes itself.

    A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

    A subtle rumination on a woman’s role and limitations in a society that seeks to stifle them? Sorry, but that’s just not getting butts in seats. We gotta jazz this up.

    How about Law & Order: Room Of One’s Own Unit, a procedural about a female detective who is able to solve crimes by entering into a special room where she becomes clairvoyant. Her hard-nosed boss just doesn’t understand her, leading to a will-they-won’t-they situation, and maybe in later seasons it could be revealed that he’s a vampire.

    The original German version of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

    This book is just crying out to be rebooted as an advice podcast.

    Anne Sexton

    Sexton’s work will enter the public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 50 years” this year, meaning her powerful and complex work can be made even more powerful and complex:

    So it has come to this –
    insomnia at 3:15 A.M.,
    the clock tolling its engine

    like a frog following
    a sundial yet having an electric
    seizure at the quarter hour.

    It’s also when
    the vampires come out,
    yeepers creepers!

    Which of Tom Hanks’ beloved typewriters are you?

    Brittany Allen

    January 15, 2025, 12:50pm

    A special collection landed in the Hamptons this week, care of Tom Hanks—the world’s one true pleasure to have in class.

    As real ones know, Mr. Hanks has long nursed a fetish for typewriters. He spotlit the technology in his debut story collection, Uncommon Type. And recently appeared in a documentary “valentine” called California Typewriter, alongside fellow clackity-clackheads Sam Shepard, David McCullough, and John Mayer. (Yes, you read that last one right.)

    I like to think Tom’s collection was inspired by this scene from You’ve Got Mail, in which his cast-mate Greg Kinnear made a kind of love to the Olympia Report Deluxe Electric. But theories proliferate. Anyway, who knows why obsessions bloom? Leo DiCaprio has his Star Wars toys. Tom’s got his typies. The point is, we layfolk finally get to see them up close.

    As The Guardian reports, some thirty primo models from Hanks’ 300+ collection of obsolescent word processors are now on display at The Church in Sag Harbor. Humbly named “Some of Tom’s Typewriters,” the exhibit was curated by Simon Doonan, the former Barney’s creative director. It runs through March 10th and is of a piece with recent Church programming that purports to explore “material culture.”

    For those of us who can’t come see the magic machines in person, I’ve assembled a wee sneak preview. To paraphrase Doonan, a typewriter museum is kind of like a box of chocolates. In that the one you select says at least as much about you as Tom Hanks.

    The Hermes 3000

    If this portable calls your name, you’re prone to moderation. You’re the sane friend. Probably a Libra. You like a well-paced thriller, a reasonable bedtime, and solving puzzles in a group. Oh, yeah—this little baby befits an Apollo 13 lass. Tom’s got the 1966 model, with chic mint keys and a grey body.

    The Olivetti Valentine

    Like this disruptive number from Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, you’re known for a “bright, rebellious” aspect. You’re effectively the mayor of your social group, and refuse to take lumps lying down. But you’ve got a sense of humor. And when your pride’s not going before the fall, you can be playful. Kind of like Sheriff Woody.

    The Robotron

    You’re direct, efficient, and to-the-point. This Cold War import from the Eastern Bloc (technical name: VEB Kombinat Robotron) suits your head for business. It’s not personal, it’s business. Whether squeezing a band for a second single or destroying a small business on the Upper West Side, you show no sentiment and brook no compromises. No time for frills or foreplay. You’ve got dollars and deals to make.

    The Petite

    This English Petite Toy Typewriter is fun to look at, but not technically functional. Sort of like your canine sidekick when it comes to police work. Why is the universe constantly playing tricks on you like this? You’re just a good cop, trying to live right!

    The Blickensderfer Featherweight

    The MacGyver’d aesthetic of this OG portable appeals to you, because you had to do a fair share of DIY on the island. You respect effort, patience, and a timely rescue. But you’re resourceful when you have to be. A maverick by circumstance, if not by choice.

    There are plenty of other models on display. Standard Underwoods for the sleepless. Remingtons for the soldier with a savior complex. Peruse the catalogue for more marvels you can count on.

    (And remember to say, thanks, Hanks.)

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