Writing
1 essay and 2 letters on this subject.
Essays
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The Weight of a Line
A guest essay from a letterpress printer on why setting a sentence in metal type makes you write it differently, and what a line of lead knows that a screen does not.
From the weekly letter
- No.8
Saved for later
What went into the drawer this month: a finished book, an essay on stones, and a short list of small questions.
- No.3
Ink on the thumb
A visit to a letterpress shop in a former dairy, a drawer of spaces, and the one thing the printer asked me not to say.