Parisian Phoenix Publishing

I finished an essay recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books, about book covers and book jackets. My art director passed it along to me. And, indeed, it talked about the various practices of book covers through history and around the world. What flummoxed me though is why Penguin Random House would publish this essay as an $8 book the size of a large index card. It does have a publication date of 2016, so… do we see such cute gift-type books today?

Speaking of shorter form, E.H. Jacobs had another short story published. “We all have our problems” can be enjoyed in Streetlight here.