A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE FROM 1924

Just about a hundred years ago, an article appeared in The New York Times featuring the story of one of New York’s last shopkeepers to get a telephone. You would be hard-pressed to find a newspaper piece written today with such gusto – it reads like a Science Fiction thriller. You’ll laugh. You’ll shake your head. You’ll realize what a shock it must have been to have a tranquil world disrupted by the incessant ringing of telephones. Finally, you’ll wonder about the similarities between then and now. As we confront our own technological leap with artificial intelligence, we can see a lot of ourselves in this long-gone but all-too-familiar world.

This chapbook is the first designed and typeset by Valeria, my amore. I think she did a fabulous job! Plus, it’s likely the only fine edition ever to be typeset in… wingdings…