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Most of the most interesting new literature these days seems to be the work of small, independent presses, even at a time when you'd think it would be harder to make a small press a manageable business proposition than ever before. One of the newest, smallest presses I have come across is Atticus Books (first discussed here ), who I discovered via this wonderful cover design. Anyone who publishes a book that looks like that deserves some investigation, I thought, so I bought a bunch of their titles, and of those I've so far read, none have disappointed. Jürgen Fauth's just-published Kino , for example, is a clever and sarcastic literary thriller about an American woman investigating her family's cinematic legacy.
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Penguin's new editions of Nabakov featuring illustrators such as Luke Best , commissioned by Pentagram . It's a great contemporary angle on the very successful Poetry series patterns of the past. And of course, Marian Bantjes' map of an Isle of Knowledge charting all the ups and downs of the illustrator's world is beautifully rendered. The delta of common sense is not somewhere I hang out a lot and the swamp of failure seems to be ominously large.Det er meg en stor gåte at det var Sjón som vant Nordisk råds litteraturpris i 2005. Blant de andre nominerte var blant annet Karl Ove Knausgård, og flere andre sterke navn. Jeg må jo innrømme at jeg ikke fikk helt tak på Skugga-Baldur. Jeg tror det som skuffet meg mest var at jeg ikke fikk det baksideteksten lovet meg. Det virker ikke som det er noen sammenheng med det som står der, og det boken handler om. Jeg tror ikke jeg har lest samme bok som forlagskonsulenten, for å si det sånn.
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Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Best of 2006
For those who like to choose books based on whether they look good in conjunction with one's new, olive-green, chunky Clark Kent glasses, or how well they look next to a single orchid on the windowsill, or how effectively they might compel that foxy person at the coffee shop who angrily slams out their macchiato every morning to one day engage in coitus with them -- well, it's been a rough year. For the most part, book design continued to play out ill-conceived fads that began a decade ago. If we could only go back in time, grab Chip Kidd by the shoulders and slap him like we're in a B movie, screaming "No, Chip, No! Your whimsical use of stock photography will spawn a legion of evil robot clones!"
