![]() – Lauren Peters-Collaer Cover design by Grace Han (FSG, January 15) The handwritten subtitle and author are an ingenious contrast to the weighty title-I find it so exciting when type is used in such a creative way that additional imagery isn’t needed. When so many designs have their main visuals in the center, it’s very satisfying to see a layout that leaves the middle completely blank. – Rachel Willey Cover design by Oliver Munday (The New Press, January 8) Also love the modern feel this has with the use of neon inks on natural papers. Such a clever image, both delicate and sinister. * Cover design by Alex Merto (FSG, January 8) The designer with the most covers on the list: The press with the most covers on the list:įSG (including MCD x FSG originals) : 18 covers Jac Jemc, False Binggo, design by June Park : 4 votes ![]() Regina Porter, The Travelers, design by Michael Morris : 4 votesĭunya Mikhail, In Her Feminine Sign, design by Janet Hansen : 4 votes Tegan & Sara, High School, design by Na Kim : 5 votes Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes, design by Lauren Peters-Collaer : 6 votes Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police, design by Tyler Comrie : 9 votes Below that, you can feast your eyes on all the covers they picked, in order of publication date. Here are the final stats, if you’re into that kind of thing. But of course, some of them had similar ideas about the best of the best. ![]() This year, I asked 26 of my favorite designers to share their own favorite book covers of the year, and they came back with a whopping 78 different selections. We also revisited Raymond Carver covers, Beloved covers, Slaughterhouse-Five covers, and Invisible Man covers from around the world-and we basked in the work of Todd Alcott, who reimagines classic songs as vintage book covers.īut it is December, the official month of Best-of Listicles, and therefore I am contractually obligated to ask: which book covers were the best? To answer the question, as I did last year and the year before that, and good lord, the year before that, I cut to the chase and consulted the experts: the book designers themselves. Sauers wrote about designing her grandfather’s book (her grandfather being James Thurber) Nicole Caputo wrote about using red, white, and blue on book covers and Alison Forner laid out the process behind designing the cover for Sarah M. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline Tree Abraham wrote about designing the (very glittery) cover for T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Sara T. The politician said inmates can to have a pet if the prison administration allows it.This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design. But Navalny expressed particular mock outrage at the administrators’ refusal to allow him to keep a kangaroo in his cell. He also was turned down for his requests of moonshine, tobacco for rolling cigarettes and the balalaika. “When you are sitting in a punishment isolation cell and have little entertainment, you can have fun with correspondence with the administration,” wrote Navalny.Īmong his denied requests: a megaphone to be given to the prisoner in a nearby cell “so he can yell even louder,” and to award another inmate who “killed a man with his bare hands” with the highest rank in karate. ![]() He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Navalny, 46, is serving a nine-year sentence after being convicted of fraud and contempt of court - charges he says were trumped up for his efforts to expose official corruption and organize anti-Kremlin protests. Responses from prison officials, posted on his social media account apparently by his team, came after he has spent almost 180 days in solitary confinement since last summer at Penal Colony No. MOSCOW (AP) - Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo.
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