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Today Laura Miller's Raw. Vegan. Not Gross. (Flatiron Books) hits bookstores everywhere. I love this book not only because it's full of amazing vegan recipes that I'm going to make all summer [...]

Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan—out on March 15th from Dzanc Books. Pick up a copy here.

Ark by Julian Tepper (Dzanc Books, 2016)

Last year Little, Brown and Co. asked fans to design a cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s landmark novel, Infinite Jest. The competition, judged by a committee [...]

The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover (Dzanc Books, 2014)

Late One Night by Lee Martin (Dzanc Books, 2016)

I'm not sure why I'm enjoying these year-end lists. But since I am, here's another one, and this one it's near and dear to me since it's in my field of book design. Because I work on about 100 [...]

Back in August of last year I started working on an interior design for The Revenant, a revenge novel written by Michael Punke [...]

One of my designs to recently hit bookstore shelves is something I was very excited to work on. It's a cookbook by Lisa Pitman and

I recently designed the interiors for a series of books for Picador called Picador Modern Classics. At 3-1/16" x 5-11/16", they're tiny editions of some [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever written something to sum up a year in my life before, and I feel like I kind of abandoned this blog a few months back. But now that it’s officially 2012, [...]

Every book designer has an idea that didn’t make the cut, no matter how great it was. I know I do. There are a lot of people who need to sign off on them: publishers, authors, marketing [...]

Christopher Katz and the folks at Ampersand Books were kind enough to interview me on their blog recently. Some of the topics discussed include book design, ebooks, Steven Soderberg’s [...]

There is a very fantastic blog about book design and many other fun and interesting things called Greater Than or Equal To, and today they feature and equally fun and interesting interview with [...]

I love book design, and I love movies. Now, these beautiful new covers from Megan Wilson and Evan Gaffney marry the two things perfectly. Vintage is releasing new editions of James M. [...]

It’s always exciting when I wrap up another issue of Monkeybicycle. For eight years I’ve been editing and designing these books and I’ve been able to work with an extraordinary [...]

Apparently the AIGA has decided to discontinue their 50 Books/50 Covers competition after a measly nine decades. Is this a sign of the digital times? Perhaps. But it doesn’t have to be. [...]