In Passing

Two small but fun things worth checking out when you have a spare moment or two: Former college professor George Kelley has posted a selection of brilliantly made-up covers for books he describes as “librarian noir”; and the blog Spy Vibe offers “a collection of new [James Bond] 007 book-cover designs created by Stuart Basinger … [and] inspired by the iconic Pan and Signet jackets published in the UK and U.S. during the late 1950s and 1960s.”