Week 12 Recap: Melon Takes It All
The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charms its way to victory
The Longest Way to Eat a Melon from Sarabande Books proved irresistible, gliding past its hot-pink and gothic rivals to take the crown in Week 12.
Was it the cat? The snail? The existential fables about art and identity? Whatever its secret sauce, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross’s debut brought brightness, strangeness, and just enough whimsy to take top honors.
Week 12 Winner: The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
Congrats to Jacquelyn and the Sarabande team!
Week 13: Textually Active
This week, our four covers play with language, typography, and the body. The theme is a wink and a nudge, and these designs don’t hold back.
- Big Money Porno Mommy by Catherine Weiss (Game Over Books, Mar 4, 2025): Text as flesh. Typography that oozes. Weiss’s poetry collection brings porn, power, and parenthood to center stage.
- Thirst Trap by Gráinne O’Hare (Crown, Nov 4, 2025): A high-heeled cigarette. A friendship in crisis. A Belfast elegy in lipstick and smoke. This one’s bold, funny, and weirdly tender.
- DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation by Dr. Eric Sprankle (Union Square & Co., Mar 19, 2024): Sex-positive and deeply researched, this cheeky exposé of anti-masturbation pseudoscience plays with typography without shame.
- Everyone’s Seen My Tits by Keeley Hazell (Grand Central Publishing, Aug 26, 2025): A memoir wrapped in nipple-circles and neon. Hazell leans into tabloid legacy with smart, sharp essays about fame, feminism, and reinvention.
Week 13 Lineup
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