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You mentioned the Edgar Allan Poe book having one of the best recent dustjacket designs, what are some others that are on that list?
If I spent a little more time digging through my library, I'm sure I could come up with a bigger list, but here are a few just off the top of my head (these all obviously look much better in person than in these digital images):
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Simon Sebag Montefiore [2016]
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (BOOK) by Philip Mansel [2019]
The Cigarette: A Political History (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Sarah Milov [2019]
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Tim Mackintosh-Smith [2019]
The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy (BOOK | KINDLE) by Diana Darke [2022]
This is me while trying out my travel bed. I am currently on a bearcation - I am visiting a group of other Build a Bear stuffies and there's lots and lots of adventures for a little bear. To make my journey as comfy as possible, Mommy helped me with the bed. ~ Knopf
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman, with a griffin under the jacket cover
25. Februar 2025
Ein neuer Knopf, zwei Minuten Hoffnung
In einem Hotel in Amsterdam finde ich zum ersten Mal innen im Zimmer einen "do not disturb"-Knopf neben der Tür, der außen ein Lichtlein aufleuchten lässt. Normalerweise macht immer, wenn ich in einem Hotel bin, vormittags jemand die Tür auf, egal, ob ich den "do not disturb"-Papieranhänger außen an die Klinke gehängt habe oder nicht. Und es wird auch nicht angeklopft oder so. Plötzlich steht jemand im Zimmer und ich bin nackt und schäme mich, weil ich keinen Beruf habe, bei dem man früh aufstehen und angezogen sein muss.
Ich verstehe das ja. Wenn ich selbst in einem Hotel putzen würde, würde ich auch spätestens um neun alle Türen aufreißen, sicher haben die Gäste beim Auschecken nur den Papieranhänger abzunehmen vergessen, und wenn sie noch da sind, sollen sie jetzt mal aufstehen, andere Leute müssen arbeiten.
Ich habe an diesem Vormittag aber auch Arbeit zu erledigen, deshalb habe ich lange nach einem Hotelzimmer gesucht, das ich erst um 12 verlassen muss. Vielleicht wird der Knopf ja helfen.
Weil das Hotel diese Möglichkeit anbietet, habe ich mich am Vorabend bereits online für 12 Uhr ausgecheckt. Das Hotel als System weiß also im Prinzip sowieso schon, dass ich bis 11:59 anwesend sein werde. Aber es redet wahrscheinlich nicht mit seinen Putzkräften.
Das alles teile ich dem Techniktagebuch-Redaktionschat um 9:30 erwartungsvoll mit.
Um 9:32 reißt jemand die Zimmertür auf und möchte putzen.
(Kathrin Passig)
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What Work Is
We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. Feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair, blurring your vision until you think you see your own brother ahead of you, maybe ten places. You rub your glasses with your fingers, and of course it’s someone else’s brother, narrower across the shoulders than yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin that does not hide the stubbornness, the sad refusal to give in to rain, to the hours wasted waiting, to the knowledge that somewhere ahead a man is waiting who will say, “No, we’re not hiring today,” for any reason he wants. You love your brother, now suddenly you can hardly stand the love flooding you for your brother, who’s not beside you or behind or ahead because he’s home trying to sleep off a miserable night shift at Cadillac so he can get up before noon to study his German. Works eight hours a night so he can sing Wagner, the opera you hate most, the worst music ever invented. How long has it been since you told him you loved him, held his wide shoulders, opened your eyes wide and said those words, and maybe kissed his cheek? You’ve never done something so simple, so obvious, not because you’re too young or too dumb, not because you’re jealous or even mean or incapable of crying in the presence of another man, no, just because you don’t know what work is.
85: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams [2020]
by: Richard Flanagan
Devin Elle Kurtz’s “Bakery Dragon” makes a beautiful debut
Just out from Knopf, a division of RH Books, is The Bakery Dragon, a smashing looking picture book, with some comic strip elements, for four to eight-year-olds that marks the writing debut of popular artist Devin Elle Kurtz