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Published May 27, 2015

Today in Micro-Trends: Rotate 90°

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design by Paul Sahre (2008)

Turning the picture sideways is not exactly new (the brilliant John Gall and Paul Sahre (thanks for the reminder, Jacob!) were experimenting with it years ago), but there has been a spate of commercial covers making use of images rotated through ninety degrees in the past couple of years. It seems like a such peculiar thing to have caught on, and yet here we are:

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California by Edan Lepucki; design Julianna Lee (Little Brown & Co. July 2014)

empty-chair-kulickThe Empty Chair by Bruce Wagner; design by Gregg Kulick (Blue Rider Press / December 2013)

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The Girl in the Moonlight by Charles Dubow; design by Mumtaz Mustafa; painting by Horacio G. Garcia (William Morrow / May 2015)

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Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman; design by Oliver Munday & Jaya Miceli (Scribner / February 2015)

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I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers; design by Emily Mahon; photograph by Mike Lambert (Nan A. Talese / June 2015)

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Sugar by Deirdre Riordan Hall; design by M. S. Corley (Skyscape / June 2015)

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Waiting for the Apocalypse by Veronica Chater; design by Kimberly Glyder (W. W. Norton / February 2009)

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We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster / August 2014)

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Published June 2, 2014

Book Covers of Note June 2014

Well, this seems to have become a regular thing doesn’t it? I have to confess that I still haven’t quite figured out exactly what covers to include in these monthly posts, only that they’re recent and I like them. It’s even harder to decide what to leave out. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this month’s selection. Leave your thoughts in the comments…
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Abroad by Katie Crouch; design by Rodrigo Corral (FSG June 2014)

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Archetype by M. D. Waters; design by Jaya Miceli (Plume June 2014)

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The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison; design by Tom Darracott (Granta June 2014)

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Foxes on the Trampoline by Charlotte Boulay; design Steve Attardo (HarperCollins April 2014)

falling-out-of-time-kelly-blairFalling Out of Time by David Grossman; design by Kelly Blair (Jonathan Cape February 2014)

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Half Bad by Sally Green; design by Tim Green / Faceout Studio (Viking March 2014)

Iceland-sahreThe Iceland by Sakutaro Hagiwara; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions June 2014)

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The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk; design by Alex Merto, photograph Eleanor Hardwick (Spiegel & Grau February 2014)

mount-londonMount London by Tom Chivers & Martin Kratz; design by Ben Anslow (Penned in the Margins May 2014)

OutlawsOutlaws by Javier Cercas; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury June 2014)

Nightwork
Night Work by Jáchym Topol; design by Bobby Evans / Telegramme Studio (Portobello Books May 2014)

secret-world-of-oilThe Secret World of Oil by Ken Silverstein; design by Matt Dorfman (Verso May 2014)

Sick RoseThe Sick Rose or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration by Richard Barnett; design by Daniel Streat / Barnbrook Studios (Thames & Hudson June 2014)

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The Good Suicides by Antonio Hill; design by Christopher Brand (Crown June 2014)

thirty-girlsThirty Girls by Susan Minot; design by Kate Gaughran (4th Estate February 2014)

the-vacationersThe Vacationers by Emma Straub; design by Janet Hansen (Riverhead May 2014)

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Published May 5, 2014

Triangles, Quadrangles, Shards, and Fragments

This is my last post on book covers and triangles — for the time being at least. I hope you’ve enjoyed this three-sided, three-post design diversion (you can see the previous posts here and here):

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The Adjacent by Christopher Priest; design by Martin Stiff, Amazing15 (Titan Books April 2014) 1

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The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon February 2014)

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The Books of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon; design by Jonathan Pelham (Picador February 2014)

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A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough; design by Dan Mogford (Unbound May 2013)

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Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman; design by Clare Skeats (Pushkin Press March 2013)

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Connectome by Sebastian Seung; design by Matthew Young (Penguin June 2013)

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Contradance by John Peck; design by Natalie F. Smith (University of Chicago Press October 2011)

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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage August 2004)

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Gun Dealers’ Daughter by Gina Apostol; design by Jaya Miceli (W. W. Norton August 2012)

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November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

Stories and Prose Poems by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux November 2014)

Design by Oliver Munday

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The Scandal of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; design by Matthew Young (Penguin

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Snowdrops by A. D. Miller; design by Emily Mahon (Doubleday February 2011)

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin May 2012)

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We Are Animals by Justin Torres; design by Gray318 (Granta March 2012)

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Your Face in Mine by Jess Row; design by Oliver Munday (Riverhead August 2014)

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Published April 7, 2014

Recent Book Covers of Note April 2014

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The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman; design by Pablo Delcán (Pantheon January 2014)

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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Jo Thomson (Picador March 2014)

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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi; design by Helen Yentus (Riverhead March 2014)

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Chop Chop by Simon Wroe; design by Ben Wiseman (Penguin April 2014)

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Danish Dynamite: The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team by Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen & Mike Gibbons; design by Steve Leard (Bloomsbury April 2014)

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Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; design by Gray318 (Granta March 2014)

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The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison; design by Kimberly Glyder (Graywolf April 2014)

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L’Exception by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir; design by David Pearson (Éditions Zulma April 2014)

David’s cover design for Rosa Candida by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Éditions Zulma March 2011) is also stunning.

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Mistakes I Made at Work edited by Jessica Bacal; design by Jaya Miceli (Plume April 2014)

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Quand j’étais l’Amérique by Elsa Pépin; design by David Drummond (Les Éditions XYZ April 2014)

Resurrection
Resurrection by Wolf Haas; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House January 2014)

The cover for next book in the series, Come, Sweet Death! (Melville House July 2014), is great too.

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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll by Lisa Robinson; design by Alex Merto (Riverhead April 2014)

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Published June 13, 2013

Tim Parks: The Romance of Train Stations

Taken from his new book, Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, Tim Parks considers the emotional drama of the Italian train station:

The train station is the ideal scenario for greetings and farewells. The car is too banal. What does it mean to set off in a car? Nothing. The airport is too exhausting and impersonal, the plane itself remote, unseen, the barriers and security disturbing. Here the powerful beast of the locomotive thrusts its nose under the great arch of the station. The lines straighten from the last bend. Clanking and squealing, the train slows. The last moments of waiting begin. Eyes focus on the platform, keen to possess their loved ones; in the train corridor, meanwhile, the long-awaited beloved is jostling and jostled, luggage at his heels. The train slows, slows, slows, teasing everyone on both sides of the divide, making them wait, making them savor the tension between absence and presence.

The cover design is by the talented Jaya Miceli by the way…

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