20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover
Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was originally published, the iconic cloud-dappled, block-lettered book cover design has been put to bed. Last August, Wallace’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown, announced… Read more »
This year’s publishing trend—the remarkably lengthy novel
You might have heard about a book that came out recently—a little thing called City on Fire (944 pages)? Or, maybe you read something about A Little Life (rather big,… Read more »
When apples attack oranges
In the Huffington Post, Maddie Crum takes a look at this nifty piece of paper gadgetry designed by Kelli Anderson that’s both a book and a camera! More precisely, it is a pop-up, cardboard camera… Read more »
When reading can transport you … because there’s a subway chip in the cover
Why bother with a subway pass when you can swipe a book instead? Danny Lewis reports for The Smithsonian that L&PM Editores, São Paolo’s premier pocketbook publisher, is expanding its… Read more »
Advanced Advance Reading Copies
The season of big books won’t be upon us until the Autumn, so this is the season of most anticipated books, a time where we move through the present but… Read more »
Forty years later: the book jacket for “Jaws”
“First novels generally sink, and this was a first novel about a fish,” author Peter Benchley said of his novel Jaws, in a 1991 interview with the Palm Beach Post.… Read more »
What is “Iterating Grace”, the mysterious chapbook that’s captivating Silicon Valley?
“Crooks himself never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting.” As Alexis Madrigal tells it, the first heard about Koons Crooks, he immediately wondered… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Paul Bacon, legendary book designer and creator of the “Big Book Look”
The book designer Paul Bacon died last week in Fishkill, NY. He was ninety-one years old. Though Bacon illustrated a number of beautiful jazz album covers, he was better known… Read more »
A look at the late Hermann Zapf’s most famous typefaces
Hermann Zapf, one of the most respected and celebrated typeface designers of the twentieth century died this week at the age of 96. His New York Times obituary mentions some… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Cookery writer and culinary legend Marguerite Patten
The cookery writer and original ‘celebrity chef’ Marguerite Patten has died at the age of 99. Patten rose to fame during World War II when she worked for the Ministry… Read more »