From NYTimes.com, ”The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute” by Jennifer Schuessler, 25th December 2011:
The literary history of the typewriter has its well-established milestones, from Mark Twain producing the fiirst typewritten manuscript with “Life on the Mississippi” to Truman Capote famously dismissing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” pounded out on a 120-foot scroll, with the quip “That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
The literary history of word processing is far murkier, but that isn’t stopping Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, from trying to recover it, one casual deletion and trashed document at a time.
Read the rest at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/books/a-literary-history-of-word-processing.html?pagewanted=all
Reads Well founder Jennifer Cornell has worked as a pet sitter, a sandwich maker, a field biologist, a community support coordinator, a scientific illustrator, a public speaking coach and a professor of English.
In addition to fiction, she has published original research in a wide range of fields, including the defensive behaviour of Buckmoth caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina), representations of political violence in film and literature, the Black Death, restorative justice, and the literary motif of star-crossed love. She’s been teaching somebody something for over 25 years. 
