Friday Already?
This week seemed to fly by for me. Some bookish things happened. A brief breakdown follows:
- Tony Hillerman passed away last week. He was among my father's favorite authors. He's remembered here.
- Following in the grand tradition of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac have a new book out.
- Not at all related to books but utterly, utterly cool. Via Kottke.org.
- My Twitter feed is finally paying dividends, as Sarah Rettger tipped me off to the utter insanity that is the cover of Stephen King's new book, Just After Sunset:
Labels: cover design
posted by Patrick @ 11:54 AM
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Just think about how many designers and marketing people must have signed off on that - and not one of them thought that the fuzzy cover was a pretty good way to ensure that the book gets faced-out as infrequently as possible?
It's like the cover is rushing right at me!
LOVE all martha's rules. i wouldn't want to be the one to break out a camera, that's for sure.
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