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September 11, 2023, 10:00am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Juliet Escoria’s latest book, You Are the Snake, a short story collection that Soft Skull Press will publish in June. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: From the celebrated author of Juliet the Maniac comes a collection of previously unpublished stories concerned with girlhood, family, and urge...

September 8, 2023, 10:00am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ananda Lima’s CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, “an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut,” which will be published by Tor Books in June. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes...

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In August, I was inundated with eyes (and a few other unexpected body parts). Here are my favorite designs from the end of summer: James Sturz, Underjungle; cover design by Jaya Nicely (Unnamed Press, August 1) Many tiny eyes are arresting, but so is one very big eye. This one stopped me in my tracks from sheer surprise. Harald Voetmann, tr...

August 21, 2023, 10:00am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Emily Raboteau’s forthcoming book,Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”, in which she “uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justiceand what it takes to find shelter.” Lessons for Survival will be published in March by Henry Holt; here’s a...

August 16, 2023, 10:30am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love, which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Lilly Dancygers beloved cousin Sabina was murdered just as both girls were entering their young adult lives, the shock and grief altered...

The time had come again. The little white bookshelf in the dining room, two shelves, three feet wide, was full. Overly full. The books were stacked in columns, bottom edges rather than spines showing, each shelf crammed tight. Elsewhere in our compact flat, a few other piles of books bubbled up like springs. These are the books my wife and I have accumulated in the last year or so, and we must...

August 15, 2023, 10:00am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Wei Tchou’s Little Seed, “an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author’s relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns,” which will be published by Deep Vellum/A Strange Object in May. Here’s a little bit more about the book from the publisher: The chapters...

When I began working on the design for the cover of Kyle Dillon Hertzs debut novel The Lookback Window, I had two goals in mind: I wanted the book to be taken seriously, and I wanted to get it into the hands of readers who might not otherwise find it. Right from the beginning of the manuscript, I knew it was unlike anything Id ever read before. I quickly became deeply invested, and the fact that...

For thirty-five years, I was at the center of the Barbie universe as a member of Mattel’s design team. It wasn’t a career I had ever envisioned when I was younger, but from that moment in 1962 when I first read Mattel’s advertisement in Women’s Wear Daily, I saw my future, and it thrilled me. Perhaps that’s because Barbie’s life was the polar opposite of my own: she was the ultimate California...

August 10, 2023, 10:00am Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Crystal Hana Kim’s “hauntingly poetic” latest novel,The Stone Home, which will be published by William Morrow in April. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knifea knife Eunju hasnt seen in more than...