On the Shelf
Do-Gooders, Good Covers
October 3, 2012 | by Sadie Stein

Check out Design Observer’s list of cover-design award winners.
A California school library is saved by an anonymous sixty-thousand-dollar donation.
An interactive Shakespeare app includes narration by Derek Jacobi, an Elizabethan-to-modern translation function, and video clips.
Three protest songs by Nicholson Baker: the writer takes on military intervention, Bradley Manning, and civilian casualties.
“I got my M.F.A. out on the streets. My thesis advisor was a garbage bag filled with overdue library books.” How to apply to an M.F.A. program.
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