For the love of a good Philip Roth cover
Philip Roth died last week at the age of eighty-four, leaving behind an undeniable legacy. Roth was huge, and helped launch the “big time literary author” trope into the pop culture… 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 »
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 »