Yellow book covers are on the rise as publishers push for bold designs that pop for online shoppers. Also check out this comparison of U.S. and U.K. book covers.
Yellow Is the New Black
The Curse of the Diaeresis
Okay, so the deal with the famed and occasionally disdained New Yorker umlaut on words like “cooperate” is that it is not an umlaut, it is a diaeresis, and they’ll be holding onto it, thank you very much.
McCann and Hemon in Conversation
The kind folks at the PEN American Center recorded Colum McCann’s recent conversation with author and soccer ace Aleksandar Hemon. Listen to the pair discuss the Western distinction between fiction and non-fiction, and also the hypothetical merits of “watching a potato.”
Point Scoring
Richard Powers Resets Earth’s Trajectory
Richard Powers discusses his newest novel, Bewilderment, which is set during a period that resembles our own—but not quite.
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Gandalf Set Up the Fireworks
The Paris Review starts the year off right with a post on Tolkien’s birthday.