Hot Type by Jeff Jarvis: Book Launch

Jeff Jarvis introduces his new book, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad, at a day of events co-hosted by The Historic New England Center and the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Massachusetts. At The Historic New England Center, Jarvis will discuss his book, Hot Type, and how the Linotype typesetting machine upended 400 years of setting type by hand. After lunch, the event moves to the Museum of Printing, where Jarvis and the Museum of Printing’s own Linotype expert will demonstrate a working Linotype. Come for all or part of the event.

Free. Limited Availability.

Schedule:

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. - Coffee with Jeff Jarvis

10:30 - 11:45 a.m. - Jeff Jarvis, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad

Q&A and book signing will follow talk. Books available for purchase.

“Jarvis pens a colorful and enthralling portrait of Gilded Age industrial ferment, replete with ingenious inventors wrangling with impatient investors, and a rich analysis of humanity’s love-hate relationship with technological expansion. Readers will be rapt.” – Publisher’s Weekly

12:00-1:30 p.m. - Visit one of Haverhill's exceptional local restaurants

1:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Linotype demos at the Museum of Printing with Jeff Jarvis and Chris Bradford

Jeff Jarvis is the Emeritus Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, a visiting professor at Stony Brook University, and a fellow at Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, TV critic for TV Guide and People, Sunday editor of the New York Daily News, a media columnist for The Guardian, and president and creative director of Advance.net. He blogs at Buzzmachine.com and cohosts the podcasts AI Inside, Intelligent Machines, and Breaking the News. He is the author of seven books, including The Gutenberg Parenthesis (2023) and Magazine (2023), both published by Bloomsbury.

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