Peter Mendelsund is the author of five books: the novel The Delivery (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Winter 2020; “Gorgeously written…profound.” —Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours) and the novel Same Same (Vintage/Anchor, Winter '18; “Breezy and profound in equal measure.” —The New York Times) as well the non-fiction works What We See When We Read, (“Welcome and fascinating”—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books), Cover (“Cover pushes us to reconsider what we think we know about the graphic representation of words and ideas.”—The New Republic) and The Look of the Book (Crown/TenSpeed, Fall '19). Mendelsund has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today,” and his design work has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “the most instantly recognizable and iconic.” He is the Creative Director of The Atlantic.
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