While unemployed over the summer I created lists and lists of things I was going to buy myself when I finally got a job. At the very top of the list was this book:
Penguin’s Art Director, Paul Buckley, chose 75 covers from the last 10 years to be featured in this book, along with comments from the authors, designers, agents, editors, etc. There are also some rejected covers that made it in, and some of the comments are brutally honest. (I was a little taken aback by Garrison Keillor’s pure hatred of the cover for his Love Me.) It’s a real insiders look and has been totally worth the wait.
Two of my favorite covers from this collection are these by Jen Wang:
You can read a great interview with Paul Buckley about this book here. Fun stuff!
