Paperback (Back Bay, also an imprint of Hachette)...
From offbeat collage to GOSSIP GIRL reject. I didn't adore the orange-blue combination of the former, but the latter informs me that Mr. and Ms. Modelface are separated by a fake pillar of emotion! I wish them well in dismantling it. (The Munro, for comparison.)
Now, from two same things that are different we move on to two different things that are the same. I was visiting a friend in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last weekend who suggested we hit the Moravian Book Shop, where I saw these books side-by-side on a table:
North Point Press, 2007
Little, Brown, 2008
"Maybe it's part of a larger plan," I said to my friend. "Why look, the books above them both have horses on the cover." A tired voice called from elsewhere, "That's because they're by the same author."
The Moravian Book Shop, which I vaguely remember visiting once before when I lived in the area, is the world headquarters for signed books by John "the ME in MARLEY & ME" Grogan. They had a really well-stocked spinner of black Penguin classics, most of which I had (paradoxically) never heard of before. They also were prominently featuring a book on how to classify your farts with a blue sound box built into the cover. I watched a woman mash down a few of the buttons and then look horrified at what came out, but really, she was warned.
that amish girl smoking was also the cover art for the 2002 documentary "Devil's Playground" about Rumspringa. I guess no one has ever taken a more representative picture (smoking+car+bonnet)
ReplyDeleteHaving looked that up, 8, it's not a coincidence: Apparently Shachtman was involved with the interviews that went into the movie and expanded on those for the book.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen that documentary? Is it good?
I greatly enjoyed myself. but mostly what I remember is that I was learning new facts--e.g., that rumspringa existed and how it worked.
ReplyDeletein the last 7 years, these have become more common knowledge. I am not sure that there was much cinemagraphic genius in the film itself, so I am not sure how it would hold up on rewatching. but it was 5 years ago that I saw it.