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LOLA, CALIFORNIA

January 30, 2013 by mybookcover

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) Why do we, in our time-starved moment, still appreciate the media that ask for your time? Take as a principle, for a second, that novels live in time the way films and music do, asking you to spend an iota of your human existence with them, while paintings or photographs live the way many poems do, asking you to respond with the least verbal part of your animal hindbrain to the immediacy of an image. […]

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BATTLEBORN

January 15, 2013 by mybookcover

(Riverhead Books, 2012) The cover Americans see is the first and only cover for Battleborn that Riverhead Books ever sent me. I loved it immediately, and said so immediately, and that was that. My foreign covers were a different story: Lots and lots of neon lights on Battleborn abroad. Initially, I resisted the UK cover for no more sophisticated a reason than it seemed so very familiar: a book about Nevada with a neon sign on the cover. Wah-womp. Along […]

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