I know that no one except your humble editor cares about the book-cover-design epidemic of women's legs, feet, and strappy shoes. But I can't help but note that over at MacAdam/Cage, they're pioneering a particular photographic variation on the subject. Deglamorized, grubbily Lolitesque legs and feet these -- the highbrow "this-ain't-your-trashy-chick-lit" treatment. My feeling is that these decapitated -- indeed de-trunk-itated -- female forms speak volumes about the attitudes toward fiction prevalent in the marketplace today: wink heavily, and leave the heady stuff out, if at all possible.