Designer credit to come Buy this book from Amazon.com Fellow book design bloggers Ben and Eric over at The Book Cover Archive blog posted the cover for the new paperback edition of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib earlier today, and I’m glad they did, as it gives us the opportunity (on two blogs) to discuss covers like the one you see below, the subtitle of which is “PEN Writers Speak Out buy prescription drugs without a prescription on the Power of the Word.” Of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib , Ben or Eric (sign your posts, fellas! :-) ) writes “I find it timeless and wonderful, with a gravity rarely seen on the shelf…Solid, well balanced, impactful.” As the day has drawn on I find myself agreeing with that assessment more and more, and it’s helped me to see what’s so strong about the cover for Burn This Book , a “collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.” Both designs provoke us to think about definitions. Publishers Weekly calls The Ballad of Abu Ghraib “the complete story of Abu Ghraib.” I’m old and cynical enough to know there’s never a complete story, and I think the Penguin designer of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib knows this too

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