The Elements of Lettering came in handy when my first novel - Patna Roughcut - was published in 2005 by Picador. My editor and I tried all favourite fonts - Baskerville, Bembo and Garamond. And yet we felt the typeset pages in those fonts were cramped and made the narrative move too fast.
A bibliophile’s memoir on collecting fine and rare books, a multi-million dollar heist at a Hyderabad museum, a manifesto to raise feminist families, and more.