Lisa Floading Interviewed by Blessing Uwisike
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- Title
- Lisa Floading Interviewed by Blessing Uwisike
- Description
- Lisa Floading is a Milwaukee-area educator, writer, and typewriter collector, and the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In this interview, she discusses her collection of 63 mid-century portable typewriters, including models in her collection like those used by writers William Faulkner and Sylvia Plath. She discusses the benefits of typewriting for curbing perfectionism in creative writers, and about the necessity and pleasure of basic typewriter repair, including why you should never, ever try to disassemble a Swedish typewriter. She is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a UWM graduate student who also has long experience with manual typewriters.
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Lisa Floading Interview by Blessing Uwisike (Transcript)
- Date Created
- 2024-04-30
- Date Submitted
- 2024-06-17
- Date Available
- 2024-06-17
- Format
- .mp3 audio file
- Language
- English
- interviewee
- Lisa Floading
- interviewer
- Blessing Uwisike
- Location
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Tag
- creative writing, perfectionism, repair
- Number
- 2024-EE-0002-A
- Site pages
- Keynotes
