In a 2013 New Yorker article, Tim Kreider observed a trend in lacking cover design and his own difficulty in creating a marketable cover. He wrote, Although the covers of… Read more »

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 »

The fallout continues in Christian publishing over a recent book titled God and the Gay Christian. WaterBrook Multnomah, the widely respected evangelical publishing wing of Pengiun Random House, has been forced… Read more »

A new cover for the latest paperback iteration of the epic graphic novel, Watchmen, has been released, and words cannot describe it. Literally. There are no words on the front cover.… Read more »

Over the past few years, letterpress printing has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance. Even the most mundane postcards and keepsakes now bear the signature deep impression of metal type, and these… Read more »

Perhaps the greatest legacy of Cervantes’s Don Quixote has been the complicated, laborious, and wildly over-budget projects that honor it: the most notorious example being Terry Gilliam’s film “The Man… Read more »

A librarian at the University of Iowa has shared pictures of a series of books that feature the lost art of fore-edge painting. Colleen Theisen showcased the edges of a 1837… Read more »

Shortly after Jane Eyre was first published, a skeptical male critic picked up a copy and started reading. “I found myself unable to put it down. At midnight I was on… Read more »

When author Maureen Johnson tweeted on Tuesday, “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, ‘Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can… Read more »

Anyone who, like me, grew up in the North West of England will tell you that a childhood spent in Northern suburbia was a spooky one: eerie, identical streets, weird… Read more »