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October 13, 2008 | Blog |  No comments

A Cancer Survivor’s Memoir Leads to a Fashion Statement

By Amy Mercer

Check out the Media Bistro mention of LM columnist, Bare Breasted Mama:

When Gail Konop Baker showed up at an impromptu interview wearing a T-shirt like the one on the cover of her new memoir, Cancer Is a Bitch, we were curious: Between the cover artist and the T-shirt designer, who’d inspired who? She told us that the book’s cover had come about very late in the process, after she’d turned down four or five other ideas—until this design came along, she was sure they were going to wind up with a minimalist words-only cover à la Miranda July. “It was almost hard to look at at first,” she said of the highly stylized version of herself. “I thought, ‘Is that supposed to be me?'”

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