Talking Covers is a blog where authors, designers, and artists join to discuss a particular book cover. It is edited by Sean Manning. He is the author of the memoir The Things That Need Doing and editor of the nonfiction anthologies The Show I’ll Never Forget, Rock and Roll Cage Match, Top of the Order, and Bound to Last. He has written for The Village Voice, Esquire.com, The Daily Beast, Deadspin, USA Today, The Awl, and elsewhere, and he is a frequent guest commentator on WNYC’s music talk show Soundcheck.

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