Every book—whether you hold it in your hands on paper or e-reader—begins with a writer alone in a room, writing.
Performance artist Tim Youd pays homage to that process in a project called 100 Novels in 10 Years, by retyping 100 novels, each on one page, working in a place that is important to the book.
He begins the five-book Louisiana part of his journey Friday, Oct. 2, at the New Orleans Museum of Art, when he rolls a crisp new sheet of paper into an Olivetti Studio 44 and begins typing “A Confederacy of Dunces,” by John Kennedy Toole.
Youd types each novel on a single sheet of paper, repeatedly rolling it into the machine. The finished product is mounted, along with its backing sheet, in a diptych, in homage to the appearance of an open book.
