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    whats_in_a_name: But what is the right thing to say to a recently deflowered girl? #edwardgorey more »
    sybann: Just over $8 on Amazon! Clean em out Jezzies. #edwardgorey more »
    GreyEminence: Oooh, this is the one that tells you what to say if you've been deflowered by the ghost of Rudolph Valentino during a seance! I saw a scanned copy of ... more »
    yvanehtnioj: My holiday shopping just got a heckuva lot simpler. #edwardgorey more »
    likepenguins: L is for likepenguins, who just had a coronary from excitement. #edwardgorey more »
    BeckySharper: I NEED THIS BOOK! #edwardgorey more »
    lilbobbytables: I am going to buy this. I AM GOING TO DO THIS. I need to let that go. #edwardgorey more »
    BytheSea: I work in a library. "Black cover" usually means "black book." A book written specifically for an African American audience dealing with AA Issues. No... more »
    LoSpaz: When I worked in a large chain bookstore in Manhattan, we kept several "black" titles behind the registers because the managers felt they would be sto... more »
    la.donna.pietra: I picked up Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk In My Coffee solely because it had a black character on the cover, which then resulted in me reading and buying ... more »
    la.donna.pietra: Practically every version of A Wizard of Earthsea I've ever seen has a pale Ged on the cover, despite his being black in the book. Granted, a lot of ... more »
    tailfeather: Interestingly, I think the cover model they chose resembles Rashida Jones. That was my first thought, I don't know if anyone else sees it. more »
    OneTwoPunch: Good point. Book designers (and CD cover designers, and magazine cover designers, etc) are highly aware of these issues, and, believe me, we don't lik... more »
    samethingwedoeverynightpinky: It’s ridiculous that they changed the book cover that way, or that they’d be that blatant about the motivations. I’ve heard a lot of things from... more »
    FoxintheSnow: At my bookstore, we have all the fiction shelved together, and I can't count the number of times people have gotten mad that we don't have an African-... more »
  • #booknotes

    Gothic Archness

    Amazing, Friday-the-13th-apropos news: Edward Gorey's "lost" book, The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion, has been reissued - and released - by Bloomsbury. And Emily Post just rolled in her grave. [NYT]
  • #readingracism

    Are "Black Covers" Segregated In Bookstores?

    Why did Bloomsbury Press choose this cover for a YA novel about a short-haired black girl? Maybe because, according to publishers, "black covers don't sell." More »
  • #harrypotter

    Charitable (Book)Ends