Shady Characters

Writing

Here are some of the articles and reviews I’ve written elsewhere.

• Keith Houston, “Emoji”, in The Future of Text, ed. Frode Heglund, 2020.
• Keith Houston, “Paper Adaptations”, The Author, 2016.
• Keith Houston, “The Metallic Ink of Herculaneum Scrolls”, Wonders & Marvels, 2016.
• Keith Houston, “The Prints and the Pauper”, I Love Typography, 2016.
• Keith Houston, “The Mysterious Ancient Origins of the Book”, BBC.Com Culture, August–2016.
• Keith Houston, “Hats Off to the Circumflex”, New York Times, February–2016.
• Keith Houston, “Marks of Distinction”, Wall Street Journal, 2015.
• Keith Houston, “The Mysterious Origins of Punctuation”, BBC.Com Culture, 2015.
• Keith Houston, “A Brief History of the # and the @”, Penguin Blog, April–2015.
• Keith Houston, “Punctuation That Failed to Make Its Mark”, BBC.Com Culture, November–2015.
• Keith Houston, “The Evolution of Punctuating Paragraphs Through 5 Specific Markers”, Mental Floss, October–2015.
• Keith Houston, “5 Punctuation Marks That Look Nothing Like They Used To”, The Huffington Post, October–2014.
• Keith Houston, “Rain on Your Wedding Day”, 2013.
• Keith Houston, “Un Maximum De Sens Dans Un Minimum d’espace: L’histoire De La Ponctuation”, 2013.
• Keith Houston, “Smile! A History of Emoticons”, Wall Street Journal, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “Irony”, Grammar Girl, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The Rise and Fall of the Infamous SarcMark”, The Daily Beast, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The Mysterious Manicule”, Lexicon Valley, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The Rise and Fall of the Pilcrow, Part II”, Lexicon Valley, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The Rise and Fall of the Pilcrow, Part I”, Lexicon Valley, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “8 Punctuation Marks That Are No Longer Used”, The Huffington Post, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The History of #—and 6 Other Symbols That Rule Twitter (and the Web)”, Time.Com, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The Ancient Roots of Punctuation”, Page Turner, September–2013.
• Keith Houston, “The List: Keith Houston on Four Unusual Punctuation Marks”, Financial Times, October–2013.

Radio

I’ve appeared on a number of radio programmes:

• 99% Invisible
• BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen
• Newstalk’s Moncrieff programme
• Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon
• ABC Radio National’s Sunday Extra
• ABC Radio Adelaide’s Drive with Jules Schiller
• Monocle’s Section D
• WGBH’s Innovation Hub
• The Browser’s Radio Browser.

My second book, The Book, was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week for the week of the 14^th of May, 2018.

If you’d like me to write for your publication or to appear on your show, please get in touch.