[VIDEO] Chip Kidd at the 2014 LA Times Book Fest

Renowned book cover designer Chip Kidd speaks with LA Review of Books editor Laurie Winer at the 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

By Laurie WinerJune 24, 2014

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    This interview is part of an ongoing LARB A.V. series from this year's LA Times Festival of Books. Go to the LARB A.V. homepage to see more interviews with T.C. BoyleDaniel Handler, Mona SimpsonLeslie JamisonWalter KirnAdrian Todd ZunigaTerry McMillan, Michelle HuenevenCharlie LeDuffTahereh Mafi, and Austin Kleon.


    Los Angeles Review of Books fiction editor Laurie Winer talks with renowned book cover artist Chip Kidd on his craft, his dread of e-publishing, and his kinship with legendary author John Updike.


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    Laurie Winer is a founding editor of LARB and the author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical (2023). She now lives in France and is at work on a book called The Hitler Tour.

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