And the 'Arial' font might have been invented by a Plath relative

Never be afraid of making mistakes. You never know where they might lead you.

In my teenage years I inadvertently stumbled across experimental literature through popular fiction. Having read Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes and Warlord of Mars, I eagerly picked up another Burroughs novel. It was called Naked Lunch. It took me longer than you might think to realise it was by a namesake.

That's from an autobiographical essay by British writer Jake Arnott, who also says he reckoned the Beatles' song "Paperback Writer" referred to the person who wrote the lurid copy on the back covers of books.