Taking a manuscript and wrangling it into the shape of a book is wonderfully satisfying work. Some of the titles I’ve had the privilege of designing include:
Godine Titles:
The End of Respectability by Anthony Walton
Gardener at the End of the World by Margot Anne Kelley
The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy
Foodtopia by Margot Anne Kelley
We of Little Faith by Kate Cohen
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
Reaching Inside by Andre Dubus III
Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell
The Isolation Artist by Bob Keyes
Late Wonders by Wesley McNair
Seeing Like An Artist by Lincoln Perry
Bone Rosary by Thomas Lynch
Ghost of the Hardy Boys by Leslie McFarlane
Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
Life Sentences by Billy O’Callaghan
The Paperman by Billy O’Callaghan
Washed Ashore by Bill Eville
My Man in Antibes by Michael Mewshaw
Book Interiors
Black Sparrow Press Titles:
Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
by Diane Wakoski
Collected Poems by Naomi Replansky
Please Wait by the Coatroom by John Yau
Heart First into This Ruin by Wanda Coleman
Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman
Cuttings from the Tangle by Richard Buckner
Short Dog by Dan Fante
American Wake by Kerrin McCadden
Godine Nonpareil Series Titles:
Providence by Geoffrey Wolff
In the Merrimack Valley by Jane Brox
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
Better Than Sane by Allison Rose
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Please Wait by the Coatroom by John Yau
Midnights by Alec Wilkinson
More to Say by Ann Beattie
On Becoming An American Writer by James Alan McPherson
Moonshine by Alec Wilksinson
Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
Better Than Sane by Alison Rose
The Orchard by Adele Crockett Robertson