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Thu, 10/16/2014 - 11:00am to 11:35am
Alix Christie on her novel "Gutenberg's Apprentice"
Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with journalist and author Alix Christie about her new novel GUTENBERG’S APPRENTICE.
Alix tells the story of Gutenberg, his apprentice, and his team of typesetters as they worked on the first mass produced book, the Gutenberg Bible.
Alix Christie is a journalist who when she very young was an apprentice at her family’s hot type foundry which still survives in San Francisco. She owns and operates a 1910 Chandler and Price letterpress. She lives in London, where she reviews books and arts for the Economist. GUTENBERG'S APPRENTICE is her first novel.
Alix tells the story of Gutenberg, his apprentice, and his team of typesetters as they worked on the first mass produced book, the Gutenberg Bible.
Alix Christie is a journalist who when she very young was an apprentice at her family’s hot type foundry which still survives in San Francisco. She owns and operates a 1910 Chandler and Price letterpress. She lives in London, where she reviews books and arts for the Economist. GUTENBERG'S APPRENTICE is her first novel.
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