The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Clothing of Books
An Essay

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2016

Synopsis

A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer.

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.”

About The Author

JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jola on July 15, 2017

Believe me, it’s such a glorious feeling to find out that one of your favourite authors has written a book on the topic you feel passionate about. And as far as Jhumpa Lahiri is concerned, it has happened to me twice. In 2015 she published 'In Altre Parole' ('In Other words'), a book about her love......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on November 02, 2016

When I saw the blurb for this book, I was really intrigued. As a former art history major in college and a voracious reader, I was immediately interested in the relationship between a book cover and the content inside. Understanding and interpreting art has been a passion of mine, so I figured that......more

Goodreads review by Rincey on January 09, 2017

I meaaaan, it is a book about books (well, book covers) by Jhumpa Lahiri. I am literally the exact target audience for this essay collection.......more

Goodreads review by Rosh ~catching up slowly~ on September 17, 2024

Whenever I go book shopping, the first thing that attracts me for newer authors is the book cover. Its colour, its illustrations, its penmanship... I find it very tough to pick up a book where the cover doesn't appeal to me. For some old favourites, I always used to wonder: what made the author go f......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on July 14, 2024

This tiny book talks about what the author feels about judging a book by its cover, how readers get swayed by the cover rather than the content of a book; how she feels when her views about the cover of her own books get looked over; how as an author she feels the cover of a book gets more attention......more

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