This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline; Tree Abraham wrote about designing the (very glittery) cover for T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls; Sara T. […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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The Power Broker at 50, and new book cover trend, and remembering Steve Silberman in today's book news. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry from Poets.org’s “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Dunya Mikhail. Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024).... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-09 08:55:06 UTC ]
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Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon) 6 Rave • 8 Positive “Glides... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:43 UTC ]
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Evan Friss’ The Bookshop, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:41 UTC ]
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The pros are here to remind us that racism persists in publishing. Plus: an adaptation from a queer icon and an MCU-style romance enterprise. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-08-15 15:15:00 UTC ]
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Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “Although I have not inherited a physical plot, I’ve inherited dual impulses related to how I define home.” Sadiya Ansari on family, place and inheritance in South Asia and North America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-14 10:30:11 UTC ]
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Navid Sinaki on Scheherazade, secrets, and finding his voice as a young, queer Iranian immigrant. | Lit Hub Memoir “What do we inherit from trauma? Complicated stories, frayed genetics, and many, many hidden secrets.” Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and more take the Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-13 10:30:55 UTC ]
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Designing a book cover is always something of an emotional roller coaster. There’s the excitement of nailing it on the first try (rare!); there’s the low of working hard on an idea, only for it to be discarded; there’s the struggle (every time) and the self-doubt (ever present) that come with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-02 08:57:20 UTC ]
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Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter, Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-31 12:18:55 UTC ]
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Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Are publishers are paying attention? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Penguin Books UK competition in book cover design for a third year was open to all applicants: 30 percent are not students. The post In London: Penguin Books UK’s 2024 Cover Design Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-07-03 20:13:30 UTC ]
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Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Daniel Handler’s And Then? and Then? What Else?, and Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-31 08:57:50 UTC ]
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A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir James Shapiro on Willa Cather and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-28 10:30:47 UTC ]
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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... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-05-17 09:00:00 UTC ]
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter writes, “A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and the unseen.” In 2017, I sold... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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A satirical confession, from an imagined designer who unleashed the style of book cover with “amorphous shapes of suggestive colors” on the world. I’ve created a monster. I’m the designer who first created the colorful blob book cover. You know the ones: the vaguely egg-like, kidney-bean-like... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-08 17:07:26 UTC ]
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Another month of books, another month of book covers. It’s been gloomy in upstate New York, but according to a certain saying, all this endless rain will pay dividends one day soon. In the meantime, here are some nice things to look at: The audacity, indeed. I love a book cover that feels goofy... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-30 08:55:24 UTC ]
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In September, poet Joan Wickersham’s No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck will be published by Eastover Press. Lit Hub got a sneak peak, and we’re excited to share a new poem from the collection. According to the publisher, No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck is a poetic and philosophical... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-04-15 13:30:20 UTC ]
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Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts, and Kristine S. Ervin’s Rabbit Heart all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-03-29 08:55:59 UTC ]
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Howard Norman talks to Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in twenty-five years. | Lit Hub In Conversation “If the infant is primitive so is its earliest vice, jealousy—probably the most innate vice of all.” The late Elspeth Barker on the most human of experiences. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-03-20 10:30:01 UTC ]
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