A good quantity will get written about ebook cowl traits. And there are completely traits, stylistic themes and gross sales/advertising and marketing mandates at play in publishing—however each time an editor asks me to write down about them, I usually flee into the digital evening. Not as a result of I’m unhealthy at recognizing them (I’m), however quite as a result of while you lump work collectively, you miss out on all of the outliers, exceptions and anomalous covers that can inevitably begin the following wave of traits—to not point out the jackets that handle to play and innovate inside any given one.
As somebody blissfully misplaced within the magic of trivialities at the price of the large image, listed here are a number of highlights from the cache of covers which have been revealed or introduced this month:
- Eliot Weinberger thrives within the experimental, defying expectation in varied literary contortions and distortions. And thus his new ebook—“not a translation of particular person poems, however a fictional autobiography of Tu Fu derived and tailored from the ideas, photos and allusions within the poetry”—was a delightfully easy match with the stylings of Oliver Munday.
- For a novel that explores id, Janet Hansen’s cowl for Ask Me Once more little doubt distills the essence of Clare Sestanovich’s prose. However tear it off the binding and it may work as an LP cowl. Blow it up and it’s a poster. Throw it in a body and grasp it in an exhibition of your alternative. With a number of stark elements and an entrancing palette, Hansen’s alchemy is magnetic.
- And eventually: Once you take a look at Jamie Keenan’s cowl for You Glow within the Darkish, you’ll marvel: Did he actually do it?! Effectively, in what needed to be a mountain of totally maddening work, yep, he actually did.
