After almost 5 years and 1,112 posts, I've decided to put The BDR on indefinite hiatus.It's been a great ride. I've enjoyed almost every minute of it. But the joy of discovering and sharing has, over...
(I'm on vacation this week, so posting will be limited. But I thought it might be fun to re-publish a favorite post and ask again: what book do you really hate?)OK, enough of looking at book covers f...
In no particular order, here are my favorite book covers of 2009. (And here are the 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 lists.) Titles are linked to the original post, if one exists, and there's a poll. A big...
I didn't want this to get lost in The Book Table's favorite covers of 2009 post. Jason from The Book Table wrote this; I love it. Jason, have you seen this?"Our assignment was to pick 15 covers and c...
The third and final list of favorite covers from independent booksellers, in this case, hometown favorite The Book Table in Oak Park, Illinois. They've chosen some wonderful covers from small, univer...
Here's the second of this year's Favorite Covers of 2009 posts, chosen by some of the staff members of RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH. Some contributors chose to let the covers speak for themse...
As announced a few weeks ago, I've asked three independent bookstores to contribute to this year's Favorite Covers of 2009 coverage. Here are the selections from the staff of WORD in Brooklyn, NY. Th...
Design by Lisa Marie PompilioPhotograph by Ken RosenthalThe first of this year's favorite covers posts will appear tonight (I have to chase down a few design credits). In the meantime, feast on this,...
Thin is in.(The Pattern in the Carpet designed by Martha Kennedy; Changing My Mind designed by Richard Bravery and illustrated by Si Scott; Memoir designed by Rodgrigo Corral and illustrated by Corra...
Dionne Warwick riding on top of a big turkey balloon.Happy Thanksgiving. Back on Monday with the first round of this year's favorite covers, as selected by the staff of WORD Books.
A Heartbeat and a Guitar designed by Shepard FaireyWhen Giants Walked the Earth designed by Orion BooksI don't do snarky very well, but on the way to see the new Shepard Fairey-designed book about Jo...
Each year since the BDR started, I've written a "my favorites of the year" post (here are the 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 lists.)This year, I've got something different in mind.I've asked the staffs o...
BDR reader Cynthia pointed this out to me this morning; it's one of six in the Penguin Magnum Collection published earlier this year. Click for a much larger version -- and note the removable sticker...
Apologies for the lack of activity here; I'm traveling on business. Regular posting should resume in a few days, hopefully with an announcement about 2009's favorites of the year post. It's going to ...
Design by Alvaro VillanuevaThis is so spot on: it really is inappropriate to forgo a belt when wearing a nice pair of trousers.
Lots of folks are talking about the John Gall-curated Nabokov redesigns. And well they should -- it's not often that we see an author's entire body of work redesigned by such an impressive cadre of d...
Design by Karl SpurzemHaving just watched the season finale of Mad Men, it's hard not to think of that show's opening credit sequence when looking at this cover for an examination of financial crises...
Perfect Rigor; design by Martha Kennedy:Cockroach; design by Albert Tang:The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights; design by Jaya Miceli:Too Many Murders; design by Jason Gabbert:Some dude named...
Designer credit to comeI know he's just waving. But here's where my mind went immediately:Anyone else?
Designer credit to comeI'm dying to know how far you can push Superman iconography before hearing from the law firm of Siegel, Shuster & Luthor.(FWIW, the same author's It's Superman! novel has a tra...
Had family in town this weekend. Thus:Unpublished concepts for Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue and Troublesome Words. Via The Casual Optimist.The new Penguin Podcast features Ron Currie, Jr., author of E...
Illustrations by George CorsilloA busy week has kept me out of the bookstores, so here are a few from home. Frequent BDR readers know I'm a big Harry Crews fan, constantly on the prowl for that copy ...
Design by Milan BozicI hope there's a word or a name for this -- and by "this" I mean a novel that starts on the front cover of the book. It's been done before (on a few older Penguins(?)), but can't...
Design by Jarrod TaylorFlirtation and the competition among students and teachers at an Upper East Side prep school is the focus of Hummingbirds; the jacket is beautifully whimsical and (sorry for th...
Loser's Town; design by Ben Wiseman:Money; design by Bert Krak, art direction by Paul Buckley:This Is Where I Leave You; design by Gray318:Chicago: A Biography; design by Matt Avery:Can Capitalism Su...
Design by Stefanie PosavecNew from Penguin, these covers for David Thomson's books about movie idols comprise what good series design is all about: beauty in the aggregate, with enough abstraction an...
Just got my copy of R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis. It's unbelievable. Some highlights:Back cover:The front case:The Serpent on the back case:Detail of the flood:UPDATE: The Serpent? Awesome:Buy this...
Designs by Robert Jensen"A BüK is an inexpensive pamphlet—just $1.49—containing one provocative essay, short story, portfolio of pictures, collection of poems, or other surprising entertainment, read...
Gimme Something Better; design by Jen Wang:Love and Obstacles; design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich:The Education of a British-Protected Child; design by Barbara de Wilde:Sex With Kings; design by F...
Designer credit to comeCover art by Wally WoodWally Wood's "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," first published in The Realist in 1967, is reproduced (in part) on the cover of counterculture icon Paul Krassne...
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