On a phone call from New York, where he’s promoting his seventh book, Naked City, Eric Drooker just learned that his 40th cover for The New Yorker had just come out, closing a circle he had begun 30 years ago. Drooker’s first New Yorker cover in 1994 was for the money issue and featured businessmen walking on stilts in the financial district, high above the fray.
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The Oct. 28 cover, also for the money issue, depicts a lone businessman in an unnerving perspective: looming above, about to step on viewers, as Wall Street hovers behind him. The illustration’s title: “Crushing Wealth.”…