Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Who’s Your Daddy
An exclusive look at the cover of Arisa White’s forthcoming collection, WHO’S YOUR DADDY.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for At the Edge of the Haight
An exclusive look at the cover of the forthcoming novel, AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #222: Kathryn Scanlan
“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
Both Scholarly and Poetic: A Conversation with Xandria Phillips
Xandria Phillips discusses their debut full-length collection, HULL.
Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Be Holding
Ross Gay discusses the cover of his forthcoming book, BE HOLDING, plus an exclusive first look!
Book Cover Showdown
For The Millions, Claire Cameron compares book covers from the United States and United Kingdom in an attempt to develop an “overarching theory” and explain how cultures “divide.”
Weimar’s Book Jacket Renaissance
In a fascinating article for the Design Observer Group, Steven Heller shares some beautiful book jackets from the Weimar Republic: a veritable outpouring of artistry backed by young liberals pushing…
Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 Cover Artist Passes Away
Paul Bacon, who designed more than 6,500 book covers, passed away on June 8th from a stroke. The list of books for which Bacon designed covers reads like a who’s…
Book Covers Judge Back
The Guardian reports on a playful man bites dog story from Dutch design firm Moore: a book that judges potential readers by their covers. The prototype uses facial recognition to…
The Rumpus Interview with Peter Mendelsund
Writer, designer, and thinker Peter Mendelsund talks about book design, the tangled process of reading and perception, and his two new books, Cover and What We See When We Read.
Seeing Literature
In the New Yorker, Peter Mendelsund talks about designing book covers for iconic works of literature. The thing that surprised me was how dogmatic people were. They felt that when…
70 Years of Penguin Design
We all have a few Penguin books on our shelves, with their characteristic splash of orange and that cute little black-and-white Antarctic avian. But how well do you really know…