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Book ReleaseAsher Perlman’s new book of cartoons, Well, This is Me , is out today.
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Restless SpiritTom Gauld for The Guardian . If I seem to be posting a lot about unread books and to-read piles, it is because I have a lot of...
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Too Many Books?Grant Snider .
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Book Covers of Note, May 2024I hope you’re keeping safe and well. Between work trips and sales conference it’s been a few weeks for me, and there are a lot of...
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Bluebeard by Tom GauldThis, but for my personal art and design projects, and my actual proper job. ( Tom Gauld for The Guardian , obviously. Tom is...
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New Stamps Celebrate Canadian Graphic NovelistsCanada Post is celebrating Canadian graphic novels with a set of stamps created by Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth, and Jillian Tamaki...
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Book Covers of Note April 2024Hey, I hope you’re safe and well. I’m a little bit ahead of schedule because fall sales conference season is upon us, and I have to be...
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Time Left Before the Heat Death of the UniverseI feel like I’ve posting a lot about to-read piles recently. It’s mostly because I feel guilty for not reading more....
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On Toni Morrison’s Rejection LettersMelina Moe, curator of literature at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, has written a lovely piece for the Los Angeles...
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Book Covers of Note, March 2024Hello! I hope you’re safe and well wherever you are. Before we get to the covers, a couple of brief admin things. First up, there have...
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Klaas Verplancke’s “On the Grid”I love this illustration by Klaas Verplancke for the recent ‘Style Issue’ of the New Yorker (which has a fun animated...
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Load-Bearing BooksDrew Dernavich for the New Yorker . My to-read pile probably isn’t structurally important, but I wouldn’t pull a book out...
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Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?I enjoyed Joshua Hunt’s recent New York Times article on the Criterion Collection : Always in awe of auteurs but never in their...
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At the Tom Verlaine Book SaleAlex Abramovich has a nice piece at London Review of Books on the late Tom Verlaine and the sale of his massive book collection:...
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Book Covers of Note, February 2024Hey. I hope you’re keeping safe and well wherever you are. I’m going to keep this very short as there’s lots going on, but there...
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Why Stop?Every. Day. (Cartoon by Asher Perlman )
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Book Covers of Note, January 2024I hope you’re staying healthy and optimistic about the new year. As this is the post about new 2024 covers, it inevitably includes a few...
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Notable YA Covers of 2023Happy New Year! I hope you’re safe and well. As is now the tradition, the first post of the year is a look back at some of the young adult...
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Notable Book Covers of 2023At the turn of the year, writer and activist Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshitification.” Although he was specifically...
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Stop WorryingOof. Mate. (Cartoon by Asher Perlman )
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AI vs DeathTom Gauld for the New Scientist . By weird coincidence this tribute to Ingmar Bergman from the 1981 TV special “The...
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Book Covers of Note, October 2023I am lost for words in the face of so much tragedy this month, so I am just going to let the covers speak for themselves. Keep safe....
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Book Covers of Note, September 2023Hey. I hope you’re safe and well and caught up on your podcasts, shows, and TBR pile. I thought this was going to be a short post this...
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Cover MeetingCover Meeting is a new book cover design podcast hosted by British designer Steve Leard . Steve has recorded eight episodes for...
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Book Covers of Note, August 2023I hope you’re safe and well wherever you are. What do we have this month? A few British covers for a change, a bit of Canadian content, a...
