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NEW UPDATE on the book assignment. I decided to use the first chapter of Charles Bukowski's novel "Women" for my type book. Bukowski, born in Germany in 1920, was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short-stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print.
Women is a 1978 novel starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. Women is centered around Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does however feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment. In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames.
I googled a picture of Bukowski with a woman, turned it into black and white, drew the title and scanned it. I picked Clarendon as font for headlines and quotes (it has that typewriter look which works good with the story I think) and Adobe Caslon for the text. I also played with black and white space on the inside cover.
Click here to take a look at the layout...I set up 16 pages but don't get confused... I used the first chapter for all the pages and just changed the names to chapter two and three and picked different lines of text to design the quotes.
And this is the complete book jacket:
