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Penguin is actually suing to get its advance back from biographer David Brinkley, which publishers almost never do. Ballsy! Brinkley was meant to deliver his manuscript about the life of crappy-writer idol Jack Kerouac way back in 2001, and he says he missed his deadline because he was being painstaking: "I'd rather take my time because the material is so great." Uh huh. Dog, homework. [NYS]
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Girl, I Do So Know What You Did This Summer
As summer overdoses and dies, so do our excursions to Fire Island. And so this is our season finale, as it were, of Rod Townsend's adventures among the gays, recording the conversations of their native environment. See ya, gays! More »
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DIY Covers for Penguin Classics
As part of their continuing efforts to make endless re-releases of classic books at least somewhat interesting, Penguin has lately been experimenting with different cover design strategies. Across the pond, Penguin UK has hit on an ultra-minimalist approach: no cover at all. That is, they're releasing six classics with shrink-wrapped blank white paper covers, the idea being that you, the creative consumer, will draw your own cover. Artistes can then submit their cover designs for display on Penguin's website. For the next cycle, the pages will also be blank, allowing you to give The Picture of Dorian Gray that happy ending you just know Oscar Wilde would've wanted. More »
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Look Back in Penguin
Inspired by last year's tome on 70 years of cover designs at Penguin, this Flickr gallery attempts to collect examples of the last few decades' worth of Penguin/Pelican jackets. If anything, the starkly crude, mod, and/or trippy designs are testaments to doing a lot with relatively limited graphic resources. Of course, you've also got plenty of purely objectionable cases of crap abstraction for abstract subjects, such as the coma-inducing Psychiatry To-day. More »
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Penguin Classics Get Comical
As part of its general de-stuff-ifying of its Penguin Classics line of canonical reprints, certain of the "deluxe" titles in Penguin's catalog have received pretty unconventional covers illustrated by alterna-comics artists. In addition to this lovely version of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle with flensed cow head by Charles Burns, check out Chris Ware's take on Voltaire's Candide after the jump. More »
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Ann Godoff finds new home at Penguin Putnam [FT]
Ann Godoff at Penguin
Little orphan Ann has found a new home: Penguin Putnam. "We hired her for her taste, her editorial acumen and her brilliant work," says Susan Petersen Kennedy, president of Penguin Group USA. ("Not her personality" is presumably implied.)Ann Godoff finds new home at Penguin Putnam [FT]
