Imaginary Text

In honour of International Women's Day, a review of Nancy Stock-Allen's excellent biography of type designer Carol Twombly, whose career spanned the whole first period of digital typography.

I thought I'd have a go at some music criticism after listening to this album for the first time in about a decade. *Keep Your Silver Shined* is Virginia-based folksinger Devon Sproule's third studio album, from 2007. I was very much enamoured of it when it was new, and listening to it again now I find it's not only held up, but has even improved with changing contexts.