All this week, Banned Books Week, a man will camp out in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, in the large picture window that fronts the sidewalk, and type.
He is the performance artist Tim Youd, who specializes in typing works of literature. Entire books. Word for word. On a typewriter.
Youd lives in Los Angeles. He is 47. He has typed books by some of the 20th century's greatest writers — Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Tom Wolfe, including Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," all 456 pages. This week Youd will type Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451,"which is about censorship and book burning, a fitting way to mark Banned Books Week.
