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Evertype: A Novel
286 pages, Paperback
Published December 8, 2025
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About the author
Richard Polt
58 books27 followersRichard F. H. Polt is a professor of philosophy at Xavier University. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1991). His main interests are the metaphysical and ethical problems of Greek and German philosophy. He has taught elective courses on a variety of topics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, German idealism, existentialism, slavery, time, and Heidegger.
Selected publications:
Heidegger: An Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics." Edited by Richard Polt and Gregory Fried. New Haven: Yale Unversity Press, 2001.
Heidegger's "Being and Time": Critical Essays. Edited by Richard Polt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy." Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Selected publications:
Heidegger: An Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics." Edited by Richard Polt and Gregory Fried. New Haven: Yale Unversity Press, 2001.
Heidegger's "Being and Time": Critical Essays. Edited by Richard Polt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy." Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
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April 29, 2026
Have you ever wanted to disappear from your current situation and live off the grid? The protagonist of this novel does just that, escaping his own life with just a typewriter, a bicycle, and the remains of the cash from his bank account.
Evertype is a ton of fun for typewriter enthusiasts. I had put off reading it because I thought the typewriter might be a minor player in the novel. However, this book is chock full of typewriter geekiness, including the protagonist learning typewriter repair, (spoiler alert) opening his own repair shop, writing his memoirs, and, for a short time, trying to eke out a living typing poems on demand from a park bench.
I will say there was one transition point that bothered me, as I thought the first storyline ended abruptly and improbably and a different story started when the protagonist moved to a new city. I had grown rather fond of the prior storyline and was sorry to see it crash and burn. But the pace quickly picked up again and my interest returned. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The author also wrote The Typewriter Revolution, which is the Bible of current typewriter enthusiasts.
Evertype is a ton of fun for typewriter enthusiasts. I had put off reading it because I thought the typewriter might be a minor player in the novel. However, this book is chock full of typewriter geekiness, including the protagonist learning typewriter repair, (spoiler alert) opening his own repair shop, writing his memoirs, and, for a short time, trying to eke out a living typing poems on demand from a park bench.
I will say there was one transition point that bothered me, as I thought the first storyline ended abruptly and improbably and a different story started when the protagonist moved to a new city. I had grown rather fond of the prior storyline and was sorry to see it crash and burn. But the pace quickly picked up again and my interest returned. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The author also wrote The Typewriter Revolution, which is the Bible of current typewriter enthusiasts.
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