

The Clothing of Books
An Essay
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri
Unabridged: 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/15/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Women, Memoirs
Synopsis
How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”