2008 New York Book Show Winner

I am pleased to announce that the Picador Art Department has swept the 2008 New York Book Show in the category of General Trade / Quality Paperback for Individual Book Cover Design.

Tom Zoellner's THE HEARTLESS STONE // Picador


Galt Niederhoffer's A TAXONOMY OF BARNACLES // SMP / Picador,
(illustrated by Pierre Mornet / Marlena Agency & Pete Garceau)


and Michael Cunningham's FLESH AND BLOOD // Picador.


Also Michael Lewis' THE BLIND SIDE, a freelance job I designed for Ingsu Liu / Art Director // W.W. Norton


We also won in the General Trade / Quality Paperback for Book Cover
Design / SERIES.

THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS, Volumes 1 & 2 // Picador / The Paris Review,


and the Laurie R. King crime series:
THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE, A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN, THE MOOR, and A LETTER OF MARY // Picador
(Major props to Adam Auerbach who illustrated this entire series).



Congratulations go to Lisa G. & Adriana C. in Production and our Printers, Phoenix Color & Lehigh Lithographers for their outstanding efforts, and my Publisher Frances C. and the incredible Picador Editorial staff for their trust.

The Hidden Man

by Anthony Flacco

Art Director: Beck Stvan // Mortalis / Random House

A historical thriller featuring a detective and a hypnotist/illusionist set against the backdrop of 1915 San Francisco during The Panama Pacific International Exposition.

The Diving Pool

three novellas by Yoko Ogawa / translated by Stephen Snyder // Picador

A haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. Spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.

• A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination—but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?

• A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.

• The title story is about a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool, wishing that she was the water—a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.