Hanks has purchased over 80 typewriters from around the world, and has been collecting them - for no particular reason - since 1978. Last year he even released a writing app called the Hanx Writer, which mimics the sounds and motions of an old-school typewriter on an iPad. In 2013 he wrote an essay for The New York Times about his favorite models, and announced at the end of 2014 that he is writing an entire book inspired by the subject. He previously sold a book of short stories loosely connected to photographs of the typewriters in his personal collection to the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In a statement he said: The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather the stories are something that might have been written on one of them".
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
