Title: Shady characters
Description: In *Shady Characters*, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs. Whether investigating the annotating duo of asterisk (\*) and dagger (†); the plucky pilcrow (¶) and humble ampersand (&); or the at sign (@) and octothorpe (\#), both newly reinvigorated by the Internet, *Shady Characters* will delight all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.
Subjects: Type and type-founding, Writing, Punctuation, History, Signs and symbols, Type and type-founding, history, Writing, history, Paleography, Typography, Ponctuation, Histoire, Signes et symboles, Écriture, Interpunktion, Historia, Symboler, Skrift