Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Musical Fiction Wins Pulitzer Prize

Big congrats to Jennifer Egan and her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad for taking the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

We've long been fans of her novels and short fiction, and are especially pleased to see a true musical fiction take such a prestigious award. Here's her personal website to see what else she's up to.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Wonderful Match of Music and Books

How could we at Coral Press not love this current trend to turn classic rock albums into vintage paperback covers? Here's our favorite:


But there are many more. There's a whole selection here,  and the guy evidently is going to be selling packs of cards of these. Highly recommended.

We at Coral Press love to play around with the imagery for our books, and of course our latest novel, Look at Flower, was inspired by an original Fillmore poster by Bonnie MacLean; and we have an issue of our favorite '60s teen mag devoted to "Flower" up on Flower's site right here. Here's a pic of that:


Oh, and one more great mock cover: