As of Saturday, November 17, 2018, the entry for Cintra Wilson's novel Colors Insulting to Nature makes no mention of the fact that the book's cover art was created by American artist Wayne White, painter of snarky prose phrases in pastel block letters superimposed with comic incongruity over bucolic landscape scenes (his cover of the Wilson novel is a fine example of the style). Wayne was also artistic director on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, whatever we are to make of that.
Intriguingly, both Wilson and White came to my attention through the same recent episode of the Omnibus Project (the Ken Jennings/John Roderick podcast), but through an indirect connection. This episode ("Wild Man Fischer") mentioned a book by Carl Wilson (no relation, to my knowledge) about Céline Dion, as well as a Wayne White painting that Ken had recently acquired. It was in the Carl Wilson book that I encountered a reference to a different work by Cintra Wilson, which led to Colors Insulting to Nature, and back to Wayne White again.
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