Books, Design and Culture
In another great archive interview for Writers & Company, author David Lodge talks to Eleanor Wachtel about artificial intelligence, consciousness and his 2002 novel Thinks:
CBC RADIO WRITERS & COMPANY: David Lodge, Think
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Author Henning Mankell talks to Harriett Gilbert about Faceless Killers, the first novel featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, for the BBC World Book Club:
BBC WORLD BOOK CLUB: Henning Mankell
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Paula Fox, storied author of Desperate Characters, talks about writing and her memoir Borrowed Finery with Eleanor Wachtel in this archive interview for Writers & Company from 2002:
CBC RADIO WRITERS & COMPANY: Paula Fox Interview 2002
The cover above, from Fox’s collection of stories and essays News From the World published earlier this year by W. W. Norton, was designed by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
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Film critic Dave Kehr discusses the cinema of the 1970’s and his book When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade with Colin Marshall for The Marketplace of Ideas podcast:
THE MARKET PLACE OF IDEAS: Dave Kehr When Movies Mattered mp3
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Toronto-based designer Ingrid Paulson has designed these four covers for a new paperback reprint series called ‘Backlit’ to be published by ECW Press this fall.
Lovely stuff.
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Illustrator Christoph Niemann talks to Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross about his illustrations for The New Yorker, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine, and his new kids book That’s How:
I care so much about magazines and newspapers and books. This is the world that I live in as a consumer and that’s why I really care about contributing to this world. And I get a much bigger kick out of having my image seen like million times for like 20 seconds and then it ends up in the trash bin rather than having my image on somebody’s like over somebody’s sofa for 20 years.
NPR FRESH AIR: ‘That’s How’ Christoph Niemann Explains It All
The full transcript is here.
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I love these new illustrations by the super-talented Tom Gauld for an article in The Washington Post Book Review about genre fiction:
You can see more of Tom’s work and his regular literary cartoons for The Guardian on Flickr.
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Part funny, part horrifying, journalist Jon Ronson discusses his latest book The Psychopath Test with Ramona Koval for The Book Show:
THE BOOK SHOW: Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test
The cover for The Psychopath Test was designed by Matt Dorfman.
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The Book Show recently broadcast James Gleick’s closing address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, in which the author of The Information discusses the future of the printed book:
THE BOOK SHOW: The Future of the Book with James Gleick
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Author Jennifer Egan discusses music, Proust and, of course, her Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Visit From the Goon Squad with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC Radio’s Writers & C0mpany:
CBC RADIO WRITERS & Co. – Jennifer Egan
The paperback cover for the US edition of A Visit From the Goon Squad (pictured above), was designed by the talented Jamie Keenan.
Comments closedNate Burgos of Design Feast takes an appreciative look at the World Geo-Graphic Atlas (1953) designed by Herbert Bayer with Martin Rosenzweig, Henry Gardiner and Masato Nakagawa. Published in 1953, the book contains 2,200 diagrams, graphs, charts, and symbols about the planet:
The video is part of a new series called ‘Rare Book Feast’ about “the timeless character of books.”
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I love this cover for the Canongate edition of Incognito by David Eagleman. It looks like something from the brilliant Fontana Modern Masters series by way of Bridget Riley and Wallpaper* magazine. Stunning.
Can anyone tell me who the designer is?
Thanks
(via This Isn’t Happiness)
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