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How To Judge A Book By Its Cover: 18 Famous Books

Have you ever stopped to think about how your favorite books’ covers were conceptualized? The Grapes of Wrath cover artist, Elmer Hader, made a living illustrating children’s books with his wife, and that’s how John Steinbeck discovered his work. The stories behind some of the most iconic book covers are…
BookTrib
June 8, 2018
Fiction

Diagnosing Literary Characters, One Murderer at a Time

Murder is contextual. Meaning, the action of killing by itself tells us nothing about underlying motivation. A murder in war, for example, has an entirely different motive than a serial killer’s compulsive, methodical kills. It’s apples and oranges, really: both fruit on the outside, but very different on the inside.…
BookTrib Guest Author
September 9, 2016