A new book by designer Jesse Reed gives unsung book covers their due. In the age of fickle online trends, font horoscopes, and tiny mics, what room is there to engage with the humble mass-market paperback of yesteryear? A new book, Second Hand, dusts off should-be-classic book covers that have largely been forgotten, and pulls out new design lessons from old tricks. Jesse Reed, the book’s author and cofounder of the design studio Order, compiled images of hundreds of secondhand modernist book covers and organized them according to publisher, year, and designer (some of which remain unknown or uncredited). Reed sourced the book covers himself and took the photos over the span of about a year and a half. Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2024-05-17 09:00:00 UTC ]
April, remarkably, is here already—remarkable only, I suppose, because my internal calendar is still stuck on January all too often—and that means that warmer weather and wonderful blooms are also here, both of which I love. (And a solar eclipse on the 8th!) And what better to usher in the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 31, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 24, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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A bakery and sports bar enemies-to-lovers romance, a witty take on werewolves, teen paperback novels of the '80s and '90s, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading at Book Riot
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 17, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 10, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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“At a time when books are being banned in schools and public libraries in unprecedented numbers, it’s alarming how writers have been reproached simply for signing letters that call for peace.” Maris Kreizman on the Jewish Book Council’s new initiative. | Lit Hub Politics The best book covers in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 3, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Irish novelist and playwright on the positives of ageing, his struggles with depression and a golden age of Irish writingSebastian Barry, 68, is the author of 11 novels and 15 plays. Five of his books have been long- or shortlisted for the Booker prize, and his novels have won numerous... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Black nature writing, burnt cake, how paperback books played a role in World War II, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading at Book Riot
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It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the new books coming out each month. And, as a result, it’s easy to miss or put off getting books that came out in hardcover, even the ones that garnered all the buzz. But fear not: the paperback reprints of February (also, how is it already February […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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He oversaw a boom in the format beginning in the 1960s, turning out best-sellers like “Jaws,” “The Exorcist” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” Continue reading at The New York Times
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Last week, we asked our social media followers to vote for the cover of year from the best 32 designs of the year. This year’s tournament was fierce, with surprise twists and crowd favorites that bowed out early. The winner edged out the competition by a mere 6 votes. From 32 cover designs, here... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2023-12-29 12:05:00 UTC ]
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The reign of the color-blob book cover has slowly come to an end over the last several years, and various pretenders to the throne have taken their best shot at being the next trend—sans-serif minimalism (The “Cusk”); brightly-colored paper-cut-out illustrations, usually involving women (The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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It’s the festive season, which means our fourth annual book cover tournament begins today! We had a tough job winnowing the hundreds of thousands of book covers published this year to the best 32 designs, so we need your help to crown a winner via an interactive poll on our Twitter and Instagram... Continue reading at Electric Literature
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“Each of these portraits is, as advertised and expected, profoundly ‘humane.’” Gideon Lewis-Kraus recommends Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. | Lit Hub Criticism The 138 best book covers of 2023, as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. | Lit Hub Design... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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