Who Has Appeared Most On Time Magazine Covers?

Penthouse featured a whole host of female celebrities within its pages – Nina Hartley, infamous adult film star and sex educator, posed for the mag on more than one occasion, as did Donna D’Errico, the blonde beauty rode the wave of Baywatch to posing for Penthouse, again displaying her classic glamour on the magazine’s pages. Even some sports women featured on the mag’s pages including Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt. Of note is the typical era-specific shoot style found within the glossy pages. The spread rumored to feature make-up mogul Bobbi Brown pre-fame is a great example and whether or not she really posed for the magazine is now a matter of rumor. Regardless, many famous faces have shot for Penthouse throughout the years, and whether they ‘came out’ on the pages of the publication or tried to keep it under wraps, the photos make for great reading.

From a purely technical standpoint, it is a stock photograph. Yet, within the context of the novel, we accept this image to be Jude St. Francis. The entire ethos of the novel revolves around the life of this suffering and beloved man, surrounded by great love. The photograph of a young man fading into the background on the cover of the novel is beautiful in its fragility and symbolism. This image captures the essence of Jude’s physical presence and the burden of his past that his beautiful mind carries. It is not a spoiler, rather a prelude to the novel. I look at my copy of the novel on my shelf and immediately feel a sadness wash over me. The cover of this novel is more than packaging, it is part of the novel’s atmosphere.

From a purely technical perspective, reading magazines on a basic Kindle e-reader leaves a lot to be desired. The E-ink display refreshes very slowly, which makes image intensive magazines like National Geographic or Vogue a real chore to read on the device. The publication is basically rendered as a monochrome PDF. Reading magazines made for reading books on a Kindle is what it was made for. Dense, long articles in magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and the London Review of Books look great on a Kindle – the black and white is sharp and clear and it makes for a fantastic reading experience. For someone who reads lots of long articles of high quality content, a Kindle would be a great addition to their reading library. For people who read magazine such as Architectural Digest, and style magazines such as GQ then a tablet with the Kindle app would be a better option, or even just buying the print version.

Most regular edition copies of old Penthouse magazines aren’t worth much money today. Recently, I helped my uncle clear out his attic and we found a load of old magazines from the early 2000s, which I promptly listed online to try and make some cash. In the end, I was lucky to get five dollars for each of the dozens of magazines. I suspect the market for these sorts of items has collapsed in recent years. However, the very occasional celebrity posed for the magazine before they became famous could sell for a lot of money. But these would be exceptions rather than the rule, and most of the magazines would attract only people looking for a blast from the past.

Kemper Boyd: snake in the grass. He’s FBI by day, a traitor by night. The inspiration for the unsavory characters mentioned above includes: Boyd’s erstwhile friends Bondurant, the huge, violent, grunting, Solza-slaying, by-word-for-brawl fantastically-insane U.S. army sniper-turned-outfitter, and a new, Yale-educated reporter, Littell, a rather broke, disillusioned idealist. JFK is here, but you won’t recognize him. Ellroy wrote this scene. As for the rest: Hoffa is the union boss with the hands of a mobster; Hughes is the very-much-a-shadowy-businessman Kingsley-borrowed-from-his-A-team-of-researchers-referenced-as-the-‘shadow-king’. No saints are left to rewrite history among this foul bunch of sinners.

Henry's time travel in 'The Time Traveler's Wife' isn't just a plot device—it's a deeply personal and involuntary condition tied to his genetic makeup. He suffers from Chrono-Impairment, a rare disorder that flings him unpredictably through time, often during moments of stress or emotional intensity. This isn't glamorous; he arrives naked, disoriented, and vulnerable, forced to steal clothes or hide to survive. The novel frames his journeys as both a curse and a twisted gift, allowing him to intersect with Clare at different stages of her life long before they meet 'properly' in his timeline. Their love story becomes a mosaic of non-linear moments, where Henry's visits to her childhood forge an unshakable bond long before their first official date. What makes his time travel poignant is its lack of control. Henry can't choose when or where he goes, and the novel explores how this fractures his sense of agency. His trips to the past sometimes reveal futures he doesn't want to face, like glimpses of his own death. Yet, these journeys also let him influence events in subtle ways, like teaching his younger self survival skills or leaving clues for Clare. The tragedy lies in how his condition strains their marriage—missing birthdays, vanishing mid-conversation—but also deepens their connection through shared memories that exist outside time.

The original Penguin Classics covers for the 100 books were designed and launched by Penguin Classics. The original covers are quite visually stunning, using bold and individual artwork to represent each of the literary masterpieces. From Frankenstein to The Scarlet Letter, each of the 100 classic books has been lovingly treated by the publisher with an eye for detail to produce some of the finest classic book covers in existence. They are testament to the great skill of cover design in bringing great literature to life.

I’d love to explore how the rise of the audiobook has impacted the bestseller list. While a title may not be selling a lot of print copies, when you factor in the Audible audiobook units, the numbers are quite different. Celebrity narrated memoirs or full cast productions can generate huge amounts of money for publishers. Is bestseller measured by units, by dollar, by format? An audiobook costs more than a print book, so therefore it generates more per “sale”. This isn’t the world of simply counting hardcovers on the Barnes & Noble shelf anymore.

The creative culture at Pixar was fueled by a culture of candor, iterations, and protection of the earliest ideas. Although Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull outlines the manual for this creative culture, the psychological underpinnings of the artist at work within that culture were protected by first creating a safe space to trust the artist’s earliest raw ideas before bringing them to brainstorming sessions with fellow artists and writers. In fact, The Artist’s Way proved to be the tool to create such a safe space so that the artists could bring their strongest work to collaborative meetings after having survived grueling but brilliant brain trust sessions to develop stories at Pixar.

I just noticed that the framing of the question presumes that we are referring to a single list of books rather than a collection of lists. “The books New York Times best sellers list” is kind of a joke. In reality, there are many lists of best sellers and they are multiplying. But yes, they are all updated on a weekly cycle and are a vain attempt to organize the unorganizable. And then try to determine what people are actually reading and loving.