The first Designers & Books Fair was held this weekend at FIT. Organized by Stephen Kroeter, the weekend-long event hosted speaking events, book signings, and a publisher exhibit hall with 35… Read more »

Thanks to this post on Flavorwire, I found out about an international project to promote literacy through redesigned covers of classic novels. Belgian design firm beshart has launched an effort to… Read more »

Recently, Shelf Awareness pointed us to this wonderful survey of a six-year-old’s judgments on classic books by their covers. The blogger-mom at Strollerderby asked her daughter to tell her what… Read more »

Every once in a while, a book cover comes along which is so striking and iconic it immediately realigns its entire genre. Before Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight hit the bestseller lists a… Read more »

In an essay in this week’s New Yorker titled “Easy Writers,” Arthur Krystal traces the history of guilty reading pleasures and finds the modernist novel responsible for drawing a hard… 1 / Read more »

If the saying is true and everyone is a critic these days, then it should come as no surprise that tucked between the endless volumes of criticism about books appearing… Read more »

The Huffington Post points us to the video below of legendary rapper Snoop Dogg pitching his latest effort—Rolling Words, a book of his lyrics printed entirely on rolling paper. According… Read more »

There’s a great post over on the TLS blog about the latest trends in book covers. Gone are the headless women of yesteryear; in recent seasons, David Horspool tells us,… Read more »

Australian humorist David Thorne, whose first book was a New York Times bestseller published by Penguin and who runs a wickedly funny website where he publishes his hilarious, prankish email… 2 / Read more »

On the occasion of the UK publication of Spitalfields Life, a collection of sketches about life in London’s East End, the writer behind the book, known only as “The Gentle… Read more »