book jacket

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On BookTok, where a flashed book jacket conveys a glimmer of a user’s inner life, a classic text can leave a durable impression.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2024

Elsewhere, the book jacket featured a line from James Marriott's review in the Times, which said: "A philosophy of the meaning of life... the most lucid and touching prose Peterson has ever written."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

“Day by day Drew Barrymore is making it,” the book jacket of 1990’s “Little Girl Lost” says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Plus, the book jacket said Chris Pavone’s new novel is about a husband who mysteriously disappears during a trip with his wife to the Portuguese capital.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2022

While reading Plato’s Republic, for instance, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket comments to remind myself what the text was about.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez