"The public typewriter is once again out in public," Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Mich., posted on Facebook yesterday. "Because our bookstore is not complete without random click-clacks emerging from the lower level, or someone fiddling with its keys and muttering, 'Where’s the power button?' "
The popular sales floor feature, which had been in Covid-19 quarantine since last year, was the subject of the 2018 book Notes from a Public Typewriter, edited by Michael Gustafson and Oliver Uberti. During the pandemic, Literati has offered the alternative of a virtual typewriter, complete with clicks, clacks and a carriage return.