I wonder what it is like to live uninteresting -- boring, even -- times? It must be nice. While I continue to ponder that, here are this month's book covers....
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / April 2024)
Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham; design by Pete Adlington (Faber & Faber / June 2024)
Pete talks about the book and his process designing the cover for the Faber Journal.
Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira; design by Tyler Comrie (New Directions / July 2024)
The Horse by Willy Vlautin; design by Milan Božić (HarperCollins / July 2024)
Kicking Off Around the World by Ramon Usall; design by Steve Leard (Pluto Press / June 2024)
If I was good at blogging I would have posted this last month when the book was actually published and before the finals of Euros and Copa America, but here we are. Better late than never I guess, and politics never goes out of sport however much some people pretend they are unconnected. (I'm still thinking about doing a post of covers from books about sport, but haven't got any further than that. Again, if I was actually smart and organized, I would have had it done in time for the Olympics. Cover suggestions still welcome by the way!).
Anyway... The author's surname and the book's subtitle were actually printed on to the shirt for the cover and Steve made or bought actual buttons to decorate it. He kindly sent over these shots of the work in progress...
Liars by Sarah Manguso; design by Cassie Gonzalez (Hogarth Press / July 2024)
(If anyone in the UK can tell me who designed the red and green cover of Liars for Pan Macmillan -- and send me a hi-res cover image! -- I would to love to include it next month's list when it's released)
Little Rot by Akwaeje Emezi; design by Kishan Rajani (Faber & Faber / July 2024)
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner; design by Tyler Comrie (Random House / July 2024)
The cover of Taffy Brodesser-Akner's previous novel Fleishman is in Trouble was designed by Kelly Blair. I feel like these work together despite being quite different? Maybe it's as simple as the combination of really big type for the title and handwriting of "a novel"?
Neu Klang by Christoph Dallach; design by Jack Smyth (Faber & Faber / May 2024)
This is out in the US/Canada next month.
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada; design by Jamie Keenan (New Directions / July 2024)
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble; design by Linda Huang; illustration by Simone Noronha (Knopf / April 2024)
The same team created the cover of Tayi Tibble's previous poetry collection Poūkahangatus, which was included way back in September 2022's post.
The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé; design Alicia Tatone (Amistad Books / July 2024)
(Thanks to Alicia and AD Stephen Brayda for sending over the cover)
Steak by Tim Hayward; design by Luke Bird (Quadrille / May 2024)
I am late to this one, but it is very good (in my defence, it only came out in the US/Canada last month).
They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar; design by Vivian Lopez Rowe (Zando / July 2024)
Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen; design by Tyler Comrie (Grand Central / January 2024)
I don't who decided July is Tyler Comrie month (me, apparently), but it seems that way...
Trouble in Censorville by Nadine M. Kalin and Rebekah Modrak; design by Ben Denzer (Disobedience Press / July 2024)
Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood; design by Jaya Miceli; art by Steven Wilson (Dial Press / July 2024)
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