{"id":90174,"date":"2024-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/adam-moss-is-seeking-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:00:00","slug":"adam-moss-is-seeking-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/adam-moss-is-seeking-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Moss Is Seeking Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"


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One of the works of art in Moss\u2019s book is a Times<\/em> front page<\/a> from May 2020, which saw the paper memorialize nearly 100,000 COVID deaths by filling A1 with the names of 1,000 people who\u2019d lost their lives to the virus. Moss had wanted to include a public memorial in the book\u2014he\u2019d thought of Maya Lin<\/strong> and the Vietnam Memorial\u2014and then this cover happened. \u201cAnd I thought, Well, this is the Vietnam Memorial, except it\u2019s in the pages of a newspaper that I used to work in, where something like this was, I mean, really inconceivable,\u201d says Moss. It was \u201ca little atypical for the book, but I was interested in it anyway,\u201d he adds. In his interview for the book, Dean Baquet,<\/strong> then the paper\u2019s executive editor, rewards Moss\u2019s instincts. \u201cI actually thought that page was trying to portray a feeling. Nobody was going to read it name by name. It was like a Rothko,\u201d he tells Moss. \u201cAnd the longer you look at a Rothko, the sadder you get.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moss\u2019s pages, too, evoke a feeling\u2014the frenzy of the creative process\u2014and provide a tinge of nostalgia. With the book\u2019s layers of small type, arrows directing you through graphics, and annotations and dialogue in footnotes, the reading experience is not unlike the one you\u2019d have with New York<\/em> in the Moss era<\/a>. (In fact, one of the designers of this book, Luke Hayman,<\/strong> previously worked as the magazine\u2019s design director.) \u201cVery early on in my career, I developed an interest, which I\u2019m not sure that all editors have,\u201d says Moss, \u201cto continue to use a magazine as a canvas to try new things. I was always interested in new story forms\u2014always. [It] just kind of was a fetish, almost.\u201d This book, says Moss, made use of some of those magazine tools. \u201cA reader comes to a book with different sets of expectations, but can we push it?\u201d asks Moss. \u201cIf I had done it as straight text, I think the book would be much less interesting, but also it would not feel as much an expression of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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