The end result is not distinguishable as a novel.
The final product is two pages, side by side, one black from hundreds of pages worth of words layered on top of each other, the other spotted and ink-stained where the letters bled through.
Artist Tim Youd found himself this weekend inside a decommissioned prison guard tower in Ossining, retyping John Cheever’s “Falconer” on an Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter.
“Which was Cheever’s typewriter make and model when he was living in Ossining and writing ‘Falconer,’ ” Youd said.
