Elisabeth

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Writer and book person 🏳️‍🌈 Queer as in Covid is airborne 😷 Diasporic Korean as in Free Palestine 🍉 She/her Writing about books at www.whoevenreads.com

Cartoon image of two hockey sticks doubling as the spine and covers of a book, as flames rise from its fluttering pages
Cover of The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones, featuring green and yellow abstract images, some of which look like paint splatters.
Cover of an older edition of Sylvia Plath's Ariel with an introduction by Robert Lowell. All-caps title lettering, no images.
Cover of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, showing a black and white photographic image of a person sitting at a cafe table with a water carafe and other beverages.
Cover of the 1925 edition of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, displaying a sketch-like illustration of a bunch of flowers. Color scheme is black and white and yellow.
Cover of A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt, showing a color photograph of a bed and nightstand in what looks like a dimly lit motel or hotel room.
Cover of A Greater Music by Bae Suah, translated by Deborah Smith, showing curvy green-blue abstract shapes on a white background.
Cover of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, showing photo of the side of a woman's face and hair.
Cover of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, featuring a sepia-toned photo of the author wearing what looks like a black dress under a long outer garment and holding a wide-brimmed straw hat.
The cover of Carol by Patricia Highsmith, with an image of a blonde woman in profile looking very out of the 1950s. This is a newer edition, and just the first one I happened to stumble across, but appears to have come out before the Todd Haynes film, so it doesn't take imagery from there.
Cover of Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, displaying what could be a photo of lines of sunlight across a rippled curtain.
Cover of C Pam Zhang's How Much of These Hills Is Gold, with blue tigers in what could be interpreted as a combative pose against a gold background. There's a sense of motion and energy that I love, and the colors are in gorgeous balance with each other.
Cover of Erasure by Percival Everett, showing a simple black line illustration of a book against a red background.
Cover of Intimacies by Katie Kitamura, showing close-up of one figure embracing another. Black line drawing on deep pink background.
Orange tabby cat curled up on couch with small Christmas tree visible in background
Cover of Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior, showing a person dressed in white lying face-down, raised slightly on arms and knees as if trying to get up or just having fallen.
Cover of Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World, translated by Lisa Dillman, showing a desert landscape in black and white receding into a black background.
Cover of Mikhail Zoshchenko's Before Sunrise, translated by Gary Kern. Plain red and black geometric shapes on a bright yellow background make it completely obvious that this edition was published in the 1970s.
Cover of Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, showing black and white photos of the author and a barren landscape
Cover of Marie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In, showing a black and white photo image of what looks like dilapidated floorboards.
Cover of Ling Ma's novel Severance, mostly a plain pale pink background made to look like an envelope or postcard with stamps on it.
Cover of Elaine Castillo's essay collection How to Read Now. White text on a black background with the word "now" in red and the letter "o" in the shape of a bomb.