The typewriters of two late Massachusetts-affiliated writers were recently sold at auction for a total of nearly $30,000. Jack Kerouac's last typewriter, a Hermes 3000, fetched $22,500, while a machine John Updike used got a comparatively meager $4375. But both amounts pale in comparison to the nearly $250,000 paid for Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti typewriter in December last year. Kerouac was born in Lowell and reported for the Lowell Sun, but became a famous wanderer, while Updike remained mostly settled in Mass after his stint at Harvard. Proceeds from Updike's machine will go to the NYPL. [NYT]
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- Thirteen communities Massachusetts are getting $8.1 million in federal stimulus cash to rehire 127 firefighters. [Boston Herald]
- While Martha Coakley has some favorable polling data, Alan Khazei has something Coakley probably won't get: the endorsement of a Kennedy, in this case, RFK's son Max Kennedy. [Boston Globe]
- John Updike died. Bid him adieu. [NYT]
- Sal sank. Bid him good riddance. [Globe]
- Babies know best... even about careers. [Harvard Business]
* John Updike has published a sequel to The Witches of Eastwick, aptly titled, The Widows of Eastwick. He talks about it with The Guardian. [Guardian]
When Bostonist scanned the list of those on Deval Patrick's inaugural committee, we thought, "James Taylor? Huh. James 'Fire and Rain' Taylor? Is he doing the Bono thing now?" We learned that was indeed the case, and rumors have now surfaced that the soft-rocker might be dropping a few tunes at the Deval Patrick Million-Dollar Bash. Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan write, "At his Boston concert before the election, Sweet Baby James dedicated 'Fire...
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