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The Typing Lady

And Other Fictions

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The Typing Lady

By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: full cast
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About this listen

A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches with tenderness and unease as the ghost of his wife's ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant during a sales meeting, railing against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter's romantic life – and sets in motion a deception she can't control.

Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories we become.

©2026 Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury (P)2026 Penguin Random House LLC
Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories

Critic reviews

'Ozeki gives us a metaphor for our very own American consumption disorder, our love-hate relationship with the stuff we produce and can't let go of.' (New York Times Book Review)
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