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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Little, Brown & Company (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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The intended audience for this book is fans of William S. Burroughs. I felt that the granddaddy of American counterculture needed an edgy cover. The purple background feels like a Jimi Hendrix-like purple haze. The type is off to one side. The picture of Burroughs has the added dimension of being art itself, with the use of the border of the negative.