Chip Kidd recently sat down with BOOKish Reporter, Jessi Klein to discuss his new graphic novel book published by DC Comics, “Batman: Death By Design”. They also talk a lot about books in general and on the BOOKish website they have two very excellent videos showcasing their discussion. Jessi did a very nice interview and asked a ton of great questions. Plus, Chip did a pretty decent job answering them ( ha ha ). So, Please CLICK HERE to check them out!!

Over at the FLAVORWIRE website they recently did a very excellent article about David Shields’ brand-new book, “How Literature Saved My Life”. The reason we’re sharing this is because of two reasons: One, The book was published by Knopf and Chip Kidd designed the cover jacket. Two, because it’s honestly a really great book!

“How Literature Saved My Life” is basically a memoir about the Author’s life and his battle with depression. In the story he talks about many of the real-life actual books he has read that have transformed his life. Now, the cool thing, is that this Flavorwire’s reporter tracked down a few of these books to share ( you can see their pics down below as an example ). Oh yeah, what you need to do now is just read the article. Why? Well, they do a really great job explaining all of these books and it’s pretty interesting… Hey! Just CLICK HERE!

OK, I’ll admit this is kind of a dumb thing to share but I thought it was pretty funny. The other day I was on YouTube, enjoying some music, and all of a sudden I randomly get THIS advertising banner for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 Book ( This cover was designed by Chip Kidd ). Random House created this ad to announce that the book is coming out in both the Paperback and eBook format. The cool thing is that it links directly to Random House’s special “Haruki Murakami” website. To check it out, just CLICK HERE!

Here’s an unusual video we found on YouTube the other day, it’s a Fun Book Review by a “female robot voice”, ha! Basically, it’s a summary of “The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy” by Jody Duncan Jesser, Janine Pourroy, Michael Caine, Christopher Nolan, & Chip Kidd. The book was recently published by Abrams Books and covers the history of the recent Batman Dark Knight Film Trilogy.

Random House recently hired a company to discover the statistics on ebook readers and their habits. Then, they created this series of infographics. The data is pretty interesting and might hold a few surprises, check it out.

Fans of Preppy Fashion and good books will love this news. Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd were recently interviewed about their new book, TRUE PREP. They appeared on FOCUS GROUP RADIO with John Nash. The interview is very entertaining and also gives us a look into how this book came about plus the creative process of dealing with so much material in such a short time. So, please give the interview a listen, we embedded it down below:

FOCUS GROUP RADIO is hosted by Tim Bennett and John Nash. This excellent program appears every Saturday morning LIVE at 11am EST, with a replay on Sunday's at 10am. The Call Letters are SiriusXM OutQ 108 and you can get more information about their programming by clicking right HERE!

OK, This is pretty cool news! A company in Barcelona, Spain called “Ecc Ediciones” will be publishing Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics) into a foreign language! The new title will be called, “Batman: Arquitectura Mortal”. They even created a really nice Book Trailer Video which you can see down below. We’re not really sure of an exact release date but it is due in 2013. Stay tuned to this site and once we know we’ll pass it on. Also, for more information, please be sure to check out their website, just CLICK HERE!

If you have been reading this blog for awhile then you might recall a post we did where we mentioned an event called, “LIVE from the NYPL: Building Stories Together” that featured the Authors Chris Ware and Zadie Smith. This public speaking event happened back in December of 2012 and was a CLOSING EVENT for the famous New York City Public Library. Both Authors talked about the art of writing and it was both informative & very entertaining. In fact, the post we did here revolved around a link to the PODCAST that was later posted of the event & if you didn’t get to go to it, then you could listen to it online.

Anyways, this post is about a review of that event. Paulina Reso, a Contributing Editor over at the WILD RIVER REVIEW website, just published a very excellent in-depth story about the event. She gives us an excellent idea on what it was like to be there and also what issues both Authors brought up that were pretty interesting. Her article is very informative. She also includes a bunch of excellent visuals to go along with her writing that are fun to see. ( Thanks Paulina! )

So, please be sure to check it out by clicking right HERE!

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins turns 75 in 2013. So, to celebrate, Random House created a special foil-covered Anniversary Edition with a newly color-enhanced interior that would please even King Derwin himself! When the royal carriage approaches, young Bartholomew Cubbins removes his hat as is required by the haughty king. But as soon as Bartholomew does so, another hat appears on his head! This goes on and on, angering the king and frustrating his royal assistants until Bartholomew (quite literally) sheds 500 hats and almost loses his head! A delightfully strange story about an event that “just happened to happen and was not very likely to happen again,” the 75th anniversary of “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins” is likewise an event that won’t happen again, and their 75th Anniversary Edition will be available for a limited time only at the regular edition price of $14.95. Dr. Seuss fans won’t want to miss it!

LOL, Ha Ha!