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Midweek Miscellany

September 21, 2011

A short interview with Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C, in The Guardian. Heart of Darkness — William Deresiewicz on Harold Bloom and his new book The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life: I started to develop the Heart of Darkness theory of the Yale English department. Conrad’s novel is about colonialism and racism and [...]

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Diana Athill | Michael Salu and Rankin

August 17, 2011

Designed by the brilliant Michael Salu, the cover for Diana Athill’s forthcoming collection of letters, Instead of a Book, features a stunning portrait of the author by acclaimed British photographer Rankin (co-founder of Dazed & Confused in case you were wondering). To coincide with the release of the new book in October, Granta are also reissuing paperback [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

July 6, 2011

60 Years of Innovation — The estimable John Self on publisher Peter Owen for The Guardian: It cannot simply be good luck that leads one man to publish such an embarrassingly long list of riches. Owen is clear that both “literary acumen and a business mind” are essential. He has survived where other publishing houses forging [...]

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Flip It Back

May 2, 2011

The always dependable Fresh Signals alerted me to this French video for a new horizontal book format: This is apparently the “flipback” format that had The Guardian so hot under the collar a few weeks ago. Please feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment if you have more details about it.

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Making The Trees of Codes

April 14, 2011

Here’s a short video showing the complex production of Jonathan Safran Foer’s innovative die-cut novel Tree of Codes, published by Visual Editions and printed by Die Keure in Belgium: (via Creative Review)

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