Vintage Books has redesigned its Haruki Murakami backlist with striking covers by Israeli designer/illustrator Noma Bar. The covers -- and there are a dozen more -- are reproductions of Bar's hand-pulled screen prints. "Vintage Murakami"

I can honestly say that it has never occurred to me to make replica fireworks out of hot-dogs.

Creepy kid aside, those are some AMAZING ways to serve your wieners.

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