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The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail

The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail

Janet Hansen on Creating the Cover for Nico Walker's Cherry

By Janet Hansen | August 16, 2018

When You're Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried...

When You're Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried...

Colleen Reinhart on the Paperback Reissue of Courtney Maum's Touch

By Colleen Reinhart | August 7, 2018

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

Because Good Fan Art is Hard to Find

By Emily Temple | August 3, 2018

How Rachel Cusk's <em>Outline</em> Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

How Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

Charlotte Strick on Designing Outline, Transit, and Kudos

By Charlotte Strick | July 31, 2018

Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County?

Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County?

On Shifting Rivers, Roving Farmsteads, and Place in Fiction

By Evan Fleischer | July 27, 2018

Is This the Biggest Book Cover Trend of The Year?

Is This the Biggest Book Cover Trend of The Year?

All the Cool Books are Wearing It

By Emily Temple | June 18, 2018

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Galaxies Unto Themselves: Lorna Simpson's Collages of Black Women's Hair

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Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics

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Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

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The Art of the Moving Book Cover

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John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

From Smoke, with Illustrations by Selçuk Demirel

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50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

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Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

How a Honey-Loving Bear Revolutionized Children's Literature

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The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

Hillary Chute on the Pioneering Feminist Cartoonist

By Hillary Chute | May 2, 2018

How Designing Covers for My Books Helps Me Write Them

How Designing Covers for My Books Helps Me Write Them

On Being a Writer and a Graphic Designer

By Johan Harstad | April 25, 2018

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