You Know the Type

“Mr. Soboroff backed out of a deal with the actress Angelina Jolie, refusing to part with Hemingway’s typewriter after she agreed to pay $250,000 for it. While reports at the time indicated Ms. Jolie was the one to walk away, Mr. Soboroff said he canceled the transaction when he learned that she intended to give the machine to her husband, Brad Pitt, for him to use. Mr. Soboroff might have allowed Mr. Pitt to bang away on Harold Robbins’s or Mae West’s machines, he said, but Hemingway’s typewriter was sacred.” Times have changed and Steve Soboroff is ready to sell his collection of typewriters, no questions asked. NYT (Gift Article): You Can Buy Hemingway’s Typewriter. But Would You Use It? (I would never allow anyone to purchase the MacBook Air I used for NextDraft, as I’d be too worried someone would use it to type bad puns.)