2018 NY Book Show

NMSG, a consistent winner at the annual New York Book Show through the years, added to its reputation by capturing three awards for prepress/composition this year, in diverse categories.

Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This placed second in the Adult Graphic Novel category. Blind Spot, by Teju Cole, received third place honors in the Special Trade Photography category. And D. Nurkse’s Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult garnered Merit recognition in the Poetry category.

The show, organized by the Book Industry Guild of New York (BIGNY) and honoring the “best of the best” in book design, production, and manufacturing, was held October 11 at Battery Gardens, in New York. Vice President Vicky Dawes and Director of Sales Lainey Wolfe represented NMSG at the show.

Below are NMSG’s 2018 winning entries

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Taking second place in the Adult Graphic Novel category is Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon), a memoir employing her starkly beautiful black-and-white drawings and the tropes of illness, disaster, and ruin to explore themes of mortality and loss in human existence, and how we come to terms with them.

In Blind Spot (Random House), which received third place honors in the Special Trade Photography category, author and photographer Teju Cole offers a collection of photographs of places he has visited in his travels, accompanied by essays he wrote, which together teach us something about how and what we see.

Merit award winner for Poetry, D. Nurkse’s Love in the Last Days (Alfred A. Knopf) is an imaginative and personal reexamination of the ancient story of lovers Tristan and Iseult told through various poetic devices.