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It now appears in a snazzy paperback edition from New York Review Books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“It ranges from like, something you’d read in your freshman year of philosophy to something that was a 1970s airport paperback thriller.”

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

It’s fitting, then, that the aesthetic has been adopted by Gen Z fiction writers like Honor Levy, whose paperback edition of “My First Book” includes girlish heart stickers on a hot pink background.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

But what I think is more notable is how I do it: I read only hardcover or paperback books.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2026

It was a thick paperback, full of logic games and brain teasers that she’d solved years ago.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson