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Here is my husband, Kurt Wenzel’s third and latest novel’s book jacket, Exposure: A Novel . I love it! Can you guess who it is? I won’t give it away in case you read it some day. But I just love the way Little, Brown & Co’s design team pulled this off. The squares [...]

"Behind Bars" in Japanese , originally uploaded by designshrine .

This was my favorite cover of all of the versions for my book, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender . It really captured my experience as a bartender on the Bowery before the rich folks took over. They captured my old look, [...]