Donald Barthelme mass market paperbacks 1978 editions. Pocket Books/Quokka

Raymond Chandler / Killer in the Rain Pocket Books, 1965

Raymond Chandler / Pick-up on Noon Street Pocket Books, 1965

Currently (re)reading: Rachel Ingalls / Mrs. Caliban Gambit, 1983

Got my Coven t-shirt in the mail today. Thanks, Mark Borchardt

Hope you check out my thriller! NY Times Bestseller Tod Goldberg writes, “The Pinned Butterfly is noir of a higher order. Taut, fast-moving, emotional, and filled with surprises. Johnny Mack is a modern-day Robert Stone and this novel is an essential piece of crime fiction.”

Same author (Thomas Hardy). 4 different publishers with different styles: Airmont, Dell, Signet, and Bantam.

John Updike. The Rabbit books. Fawcett

Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989/91

Robert Stone / Hall of Mirrors Penguin, 1987

Tennessee Williams / Baby Doll: The Film for the Script Penguin, 1958

Probably the next Burgess I’ll read: The Long Wanes Trilogy: A Malayan Trilogy Ballantine, 1966

4 understated hardback designs for Nabokov

I really am starting to downsize, but could I pass up this 1965 Gold Medal edition of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me? Nope.

Milton Glaser-illustrated cover. Shakespeare / Narrative Poems Signet

I feel a film noir kick coming on.

Stoked that the new edition of my novel The Book of Ralph is about a month away from release: includes an author introduction, 150 pages of bonus stories, and a new design. The original version was published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press in 2004. Sneak preview: