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Article: Mark Axelrod's 'Bombay California': a feature novel.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
- Author:
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After browsing through a mountain-high manuscript that landed on my desk a few months ago from the salubrious West Coast, I couldn't help reminiscing about Gutenberg's plowable type, Giambattista Bodoni's impressive title pages and luxurious margins, Louis Elzever's elegant typefaces, and many others, inventors and innovators, those who enriched the printed page with new types of letters, symbols, and optical characters: well, yes, Baskerville, Caslon, Didot, Garamond, Goudy, Granjon, Morris, Rogers, Tory . . . and, of course, how can one leave out the computer wizards of instant contemporary typographic design? And all that because the author of this mountain-high ...