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Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant To See (2012)

by Françoise Mouly(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1419702092 (ISBN13: 9781419702099)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

review 1: There's much more to this book than I expected. Lots of interesting background on the ins and outs of what goes into choosing the weekly covers, and also a glimpse of a few covers that didn't make the final cut, and the reasons why. I've been paying more attention to the New Yorker covers since reading this book, as sometimes I just wasn't paying attention to their possible relevance to current events.
review 2: Other reviewers are right that this feels a little misnamed. Most of the featured covers are ones that did make it all the way to the published edition. Still, I really liked getting to see some of the rough sketches for those, as well as the ones that didn't make it in. It's neat to get a little peak into the decisions that go on behind the scenes. Wis... moreh there'd been more could've-beens though, and also wish there'd been a little more detail around some of the ones that got passed over. Often there was just a sentence explanation for why something was passed on. less

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