Steven Heller writes an appreciation of the “incredibly ground-breaking” covers for the Time Reading Program of the 1960s. The covers “had a huge influence on trade paperback design. Yet the TRP is all but forgotten today, ironically, even by some who created the covers.” His piece is accompanied by a 39-cover slideshow. (Via Casual Optimist) . . . A collection of previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories is being published later this month. I’ll have a review up sometime in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, I was going to post something from the book on the blog, but Gregory Cowles has beaten me to it, posting the exact same excerpt I had in mind over at Paper Cuts. . . . Berkeley Breathed is interviewed about the first volume collecting his great comic strip: “Bloom County’s oddness reached out to a lot of disturbed minds, in a way that Beetle Bailey probably didn’t.” . . . The great Odd Books looks at a 1939 volume of astrological predictions about Hitler. . . . Nina Sankovitch has been reading (and reviewing) a book a day for one year. Not to be outdone, Jack Pendarvis has started reading a book flap every day.