Episode 108: Covers

This week, Jessica and Michael discuss their selections for #bookcover2019, a seven-day challenge on Twitter where users share a book cover each day. 

As Jessica spent some time scouring her library, she says:

Sometimes, I open these books and that smell of summer, of old paper, comes back to me and I had this Proustian moment of being in the library as a kid in the summertime taking out my book or bringing back a book and what it smelled like when they stamped it in the back. I have such a visceral, totemic feeling about those books and those volumes.

Also mentioned this week:

• Michael’s selections; Jessica’s selections
• Talking Covers, Vintage Contemporaries, Lorraine Louie
• Tim Kreider, New York Times, The World According to Mad Magazine
• Wired, By Dying, Mad Gets Its Best Shot At A Second Life
• Steven Heller, Design Observer, Don Wall: Brave New Book Design
• Getty Design Center, Schlemmer’s The Triadic Ballet

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