Kit Mills on Book Designs
Hello and welcome to the first installment of Judge a Book by its Cover, our brand-new and very shiny design-centric column. First, I’d like to talk about the process behind the jacket design of Claire...
View ArticleWaking Up To Pretty Pictures
When I find myself having a difficult time staying awake after a long weekend of movie marathon-ing, it helps to look at pretty objects to perk up the eyelids. What better way than to peruse shelves...
View ArticleFive By Five: An Illustrated Retrospective
The year in self-centered retrospection according to Kit Malls. For context: this year is the year that things happened to me and the year that I happened to things. Top five books read in...
View ArticleWise words from J. R. R. Tolkien
Oftentimes people ask me how I choose my favorite books. I attempt to answer, try to come up with some logical reason they can understand, some repeatable method that I can use to discover the books...
View ArticleLiterary Roundup: The Hobbit (Finally), Don’t Be a Whore on Good Reads, and...
Omgomgomgomg, The Hobbit! Tonight! What writers need to know about Good Reads: don’t be a self-promoting whore. Lena Dunham’s $3.7 book proposal leaked on Gawker last week, and has since been taken...
View ArticleLiterary Roundup: Used Books, More Girls and Cupcakes
Literary-esque things Bloq Editors eyed this week: Used books are underrated. Oscar-winning director, Ang Lee, discovers that the U.S. is not just New York and Los Angeles. More Girls. What seven-tier...
View ArticleLiterary RoundUp: Tina Brown’s Daily Media Diet, Vogue’s Grace Celebrates Her...
Literary things Bloq Editors eyed this week: - Tina Brown is opinionated and reveals her daily media diet. - Grace Coddington (reluctantly) takes over Vogue’s Twitter to promote her memoir, released...
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