(W.W. Norton & Co., 2013) As soon as I sold the memoir of my father to Norton, I knew what picture I wanted on the cover. This photograph of my dad and I, taken in front of a pair of marble arches in Golden Gate Park, has long been my favorite of us. I was ten years old when he took me out of school for the day to pose for a series of pictures he’d hoped would be the […]

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(Grand Central Publishing, 2012) I’ve had my ups and downs with my book covers in the past. Mostly downs, to be frank. I heard another author joking recently about how grateful she was that her book cover wasn’t some girl running through a field of wheat, and I was like, wait, that was actually my last book cover. I’m the joke! Ha, ha, ha. Hilarious.    But still, I had high hopes for The Middlesteins. I was with a new […]

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(Graywolf Press, 2013) When I’m on the subway and I see someone at the end of the car reading a novel; when I want to know what that novel is but can’t make out the author name or title; when all the foregoing and yet I still know what that person is reading—that is my idea of a great cover. Which is to say: for Woke Up Lonely, I wanted something bold. Something that felt designed. No photographs. No birds. […]

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