Midweek Miscellany

David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College speech will be published by Little, Brown in April 2009.

Design a book cover using a fictitious title and an image from the LIFE photo archives. Sponsored by Typophile, via The Book Cover Archive.

The Huffington Post wonders if books can be saved from extinction.

Book designer and blogger Christopher Tobias interviews designer David Drummond. Drummond's work has been featured several times here. Again, via The Book Cover Archive.