The internal struggle as a designer, then, is finding a satisfying balance between commercial accessibility and artistic standards. Although this can sometimes result in graphic sameness, readers do need cues to help them decide what to buy. Generally, hardcovers can afford to be a bit abstract while paperbacks prefer to be more concrete. What this means visually is democratizing the design: making it appeal to more readers by showing more of a sense of place, time, character, genre, or mood. The goal of the paperback is therefore to reposition a book, capture a wider audience, or target a new market. Whether or not a book needs a facelift depends on a number of factors, including (most importantly) hardcover sales, the hardcover design’s commercial accessibility, and its reproducibility in paperback.
On average, roughly half our covers are adapted from the hardcover design, and the rest are entire redesigns. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story - a novel to read in one sitting, even as its piercing meditations linger long after the last page.I’m a cover designer at Vintage & Anchor Books, the paperback imprint at the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life - a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions. of Speculation" was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWĪ Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune,, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed From the acclaimed author of Last Things comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage - a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
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