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Lorrie Moore's Latest Novel: Alternate Covers, New Yorker-Style
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: books, Daniel Hertzberg, design, fiction, Lorrie Moore, Peter Terzian
Emily Gordon writes:
Our friend and Print contributing editor Peter Terzian showcases some of the unused covers for Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs (which I reviewed not long ago). And there’s a double New Yorker connection! Peter writes:Barbara de Wilde, associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf, has designed the jackets of Lorrie Moore’s novels and story collections dating back to Like Life, in 1990. For the cover of A Gate at the Stairs, Moore’s first book in a decade, de Wilde initially contacted Daniel Hertzberg, whose illustrations she had seen in The New Yorker. “I loved the high-contrast quality of his drawings,” she says. “It reminded me of Robert McCloskey books. I wanted all those remarkable colors from Blueberries for Sal and Make Way for Ducklings—those mustards and odd greens and quirky blues.”Go to the post to see the parallel-universe covers!
