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Midweek Miscellany

December 16, 2009

Eye, Eye! — The Creative Review looks at the vibrant work of printing studio/small press Nobrow. It’s an Anagram! — Indigo’s e-book initiative Shortcovers has become ‘Kobo’. Much fuss has been made about the name (and the slightly iffy redesign), but what’s more interesting is that Kobo is being spun-off from its parent company in [...]

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10 Websites for Vintage Books, Covers and Inspiration

December 8, 2009

1. A Journey Round My Skull — “Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature.” 2. The Art of Penguin Science Fiction — A comprehensive collection of Penguin sci-fi covers from 1935 onwards. 3. BibliOdyssey — “Books… Illustrations… Science… History… Visual Materia Obscura… Eclectic Bookart.” 4. Book (Design) Stories — [...]

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Sunnyside

September 24, 2009

I just picked up  copy of Glen David Gold’s most recent novel Sunnyside. Book Covers Anonymous gave the British cover — with a whimsical illustration by Adam Simpson — some love back in July, but I think I prefer this lovely elegant, and understated cover by Megan Wilson for the US edition published by Knopf: [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, September 9th, 2009

September 9, 2009

Getting Paid by the Joke — Roy Hattersley on Keith Waterhouse, author of Billy Liar, who died last week aged 80: One of the great lines, spoken in the subsequent film version by Wilfred Pickles playing Billy’s father, combined fury and bewilderment. Why, he demanded to know, had his son told the neighbours that he had [...]

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Something for the Weekend, August 28th, 2009

August 28, 2009

Now, About That Cover — Ted Striphas, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, discusses the cover of his new book The Late Age of Print, which uses a dramatic photograph by artist Cara Barer: The Late Age of Print is a book about the past, present, and future [...]

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