By its Cover: How We Are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers
randomly:
How We Are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers
In truth, this book has no book jacket. What it has instead is a wraparound, or ribbon, bearing the book title and author's name. Along with this is an elastic band with which to keep the book closed. As an object, How We Are Hungry is undoubtedly mean to look like a moleskin notebook, and does so handily. I'm not entirely sure the purpose of making your book of stories look like a moleskin (a book of sketches maybe, or a memoir), but maybe the purpose is more like anti-purpose than true purpose. That is, the moleskin is "cool," and reminds one of "cool," and is therefore worth emulating as a "cool" product. It is, at the very least, something you notice on the bookshelf. You think, "oh, what's that moleskin doing there in the fiction section?" Upon closer inspection, it looks to be Dave Eggers' latest book. And you may or may not be more interested in it based on this information. But at least you stopped. You looked. You said, "oh, cool."
And, indeed, "oh, cool," was my reaction. Then I moved to the next table, and asked the people at the counter if they carried moleskin notebooks. When they said that they did, I bought three of those.
So, thanks, Dave Eggers, for reminding me of moleskin.
// posted by terry@bainbooks.com //
// permalink // linking blogs
// Read the comments (there are 0) / Post a Comment
Recently
By its Cover: Bicycle: The History by David Herlihy / By its Cover: Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag / By its Cover: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky / By its Cover: The Other End of the Leash / By its Cover: The Night Before Christmas Pop-up / By its Cover: Pie by Ken Haedrich / By its Cover: Resistance by Barry Lopez / By its Cover: America the Beautiful by Robert Sabuda / By its Cover: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes / By its Cover: Day of the Dachshund /
Memory
May 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 /
PS: IC.XC.NIKA
Everything on this and all Terry Bain websites (unless otherwise noted), including all text and images, is licensed for your use via Creative Commons License.
Because Blogger makes sense. Because Google owns blogger and Google makes sense. Because life is short and why would I spend more time than necessary worrying about what blogging system I was using. Blog on.
Didn't you hear? Geeks are cool. And Geekhosting is not just cool, it's cheap, and I've had very few problems with those folks. So there I stay.
