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Maximal meaning in minimal space: the history of punctuation

April 16, 2013 – 6:08 pm
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The following article, translated into French, was originally published in the April 2013 issue of Hiatus, la revue. Francis Ramel, Hiatus’ editor-in-chief, contacted me some time back to ask if I might be interested in writing an article about the “minimum” of punctuation, to match one of the themes of the April issue. The word [...]

A Sneak Peek…

February 26, 2013 – 11:20 pm
By Keith Houston | Posted in news | Comments (5)

…inside the Shady Characters book! Designer Judith Abbate has just posted a sample of the interior design on Twitter. Not to blow my own trumpet, but that red and black text does look awfully good, doesn’t it?

Miscellany № 20: On Typewriters

December 10, 2012 – 1:38 am
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Recently I was lucky enough to take a break from editing the Shady Characters manuscript with an entertaining trip to New York City to visit Brendan Curry, my editor, and Penny Speckter, to whom dedicated readers will require no introduction. (More on that in a week or two, I hope.) In amongst the various punctuation-related [...]

Miscellany № 15

September 16, 2012 – 5:05 pm
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A short entry today, but, I hope, a good one. In the run-up to handing in the Shady Characters manuscript, I went through my notes one last time to check that I hadn’t missed anything. In doing so I came across a cryptic note about some of Richard Isbell’s original drawings for his font Americana, [...]