Sat Oct 10 · 10:00am
Jeff Jarvis, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
Jeff Jarvis discusses Hot Type, his history of how the Linotype typesetting machine “upended 400 years of setting type by hand,” in a day co-hosted with the Museum of Printing. After lunch the event moves to the museum, where Jarvis and Chris Bradford demonstrate a working Linotype. Jarvis, founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly and emeritus professor at CUNY’s Newmark journalism school, wrote The Gutenberg Parenthesis.