“The book is bejeweled with sensuous detail. . . . [and] the iconoclastic charm of the artist keeps the pages turning .” –The Washington Post “A definitive life of Francis Bacon. . . . Stevens and Swan are vivid scene setters. . . . Francis Bacon does justice to the contradictions of both the man and the art.” –The Boston Globe A decade in the making: the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one […]
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and […]
Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This (2017), and the forthcoming books Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (July 2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Terrible Men, a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine. But in the mean time, let’s share this video which is the whole reason for this blog post, ha ha, […]
Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!
Listed here is a schedule for the month of July where you can join Kristen Radtke on her 2021 virtual book tour. Of course this is for her latest book, just recently published by Pantheon, SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS: 7/6 – 6pm EST – The Center for Fiction in conversation with Leslie Jamison 7/8 – 5pm PST – Writer’s Block and Black Mountain Institute in conversation with José Orduña 7/12 – 7pm CST – Women […]
Okay, real quick, we wanna thank Jimmy over at IEP Films over at YouTube for this great review! This video looks at Chip Kidd’s New Book, “THE PEANUTS POSTER COLLECTION”. This is a nice collection of 20 removable, frameable prints you can take out & display… oh yeah, here’s the video already!!
COMING JUNE 28th: This is a FREE Online VIRTUAL “BOOK TOUR” EVENT (But You Must Register). Magic City Books is proud to welcome Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lawrence Wright for a virtual event in celebration of his new book, The Plague Year. The Plague Year is an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19: its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it. This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To […]
SPARK & FIRE PODCAST recently did a profile on the Designer who created the Iconic “Jurassic Park” Book Cover. Back in the day, a Designer named Chip Kidd got a dream assignment: Create an iconic book cover for a soon-to-be-blockbuster: Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. And when the pressure to perform is that high, it’s easy to get creatively paralyzed. SPARK & FIRE follows Chip on his journey in and out of stuck-ness as he creates one of […]
Coming to a Store Near You! Here’s a very recent Book Cover Design at Knopf by Chip Kidd. This is for “ALL IN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY” by Billie Jean King. An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life’s journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career–six years as […]
In Stores Now! Here’s a very recent Book Cover Design at Knopf by Chip Kidd. This is for “THE PLAGUE YEAR: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID” by Lawrence Wright. LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas. His recent novel, The End of October, was a New York Times best seller. Wright’s books have […]