
Wells Tower is my favorite writer. For one, he has a great name and for two, he is an utter once-in-a-lifetime genius and I follow his writing the way some people follow the Grateful Dead. I have combed the stacks of college libraries, poring over back-issues of the Paris Review for a mere mention of [...]
Juding covers by their books.I’ve been working on a new post about video games and auteur-ship and spectator/spectacle relationships, but in the meanwhile the Book Design Review crew has their list of favorite book covers from the year 2008. I have to disagree with a handful of these. Some are just goofy or cute in an illustrative sense. And [...]