![]() Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery cover design by Linda Huang (Pantheon, March 21) I have never been so stressed out by a book cover in my life. Jeff Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War cover design by Steve Attardo (W.W. We eventually settled on the orange/purple palette against the green succulent with a simple font.” It’s like the book cover version of power clashing. It was Michael’s idea to focus on the singular cactus and add a checkerboard (AKA Vans vibe) to the background. “I distorted some, tried images of ornately tangled cacti and others of just one tree, added vibrant colors, and tried to incorporate fonts that played off an 80s aesthetic. “I felt like the cactus as centerpiece was conceptually and visually interesting,” Mahon told Lit Hub. Michael Chang, Synthetic Jungle: Poems cover design by Emily Mahon (Curbstone Books, March 15) ![]() This is a very clever concept for this book, a “literary supercut” of descriptions of nature, their inhabitants plucked out and discarded-it might easily have been too on the nose, but instead it’s a perfect record scratch of a ’70s mountaineering manual. Tom Comitta, The Nature Book cover design by Tree Abraham (Coffee House Press, March 14) Regan Penaluna, How to Think Like a Woman cover design by Kelly Winton, artwork by Ewa Juszkiewicz (Grove Press, March 14)īrilliant image selection (I encourage everyone to go look at Juszkiewicz’s portfolio, damn), amplified and honed with the bold border and the text treatment. Amazing how much can be done with three colors, hand lettering, and a sense of movement. ![]() There’s something so timeless and appealing about this cover-it’s almost giving me classic 1940s children’s book, until you see the little drone. Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood cover design by Jon Gray (FSG, March 7) But they also suggest that something is being pieced together-in this case, how to parent a son who really is a little monster (and not just acting like one).” The result is a glorious, vintage-infused wink of a cover. The floating shapes evoke a children’s game, as well as the saturated colors of Mexican culture, which is at the narrative heart of the story. Reaching back into art history solved this problem, as it sidestepped literal depiction, but also placed this book within a literary tradition of monsters and the monstrous. “Monstrilio, the half-human, half-monster child at the heart of the story, really shouldn’t be depicted, but he couldn’t not be depicted. “At the center of the design process was a quandary,” Zando’s Art Director Evan Gaffney told Lit Hub. Here are my favorites from March: Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio cover design by Alex Merto (Zando, March 7) ![]() Another month of books, another month of book covers. ![]()
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