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Peter Mendelsund

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Peter Mendelsund


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Peter Mendelsund is the associate art director of Alfred A. Knopf and a recovering classical pianist. His designs have been described by The Wall Street Journal as being “the most instantly recognizable and iconic book covers in contemporary fiction.” He lives in New York.

Average rating: 3.67 · 7,634 ratings · 1,390 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
La transformación

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3.90 avg rating — 1,390,662 ratings — published 1915 — 5886 editions
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Calypso

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4.10 avg rating — 145,269 ratings — published 2018
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What We See When We Read

3.70 avg rating — 5,943 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions
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Same Same

3.01 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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The Look of the Book: Jacke...

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3.93 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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The Delivery

3.36 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions
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Cover

4.41 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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Weepers

3.11 avg rating — 122 ratings6 editions
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Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1...

4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings2 editions
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Weepers: A Novel

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“If books were roads, some would be made for driving quickly - details are scant, and what details there are appear drab - but the velocity and torque of the narrative is exhilarating. Some books, if seen as roads, would be make for walking - the trajectory of the road mattering far less than the vistas these roads might afford. The best book for me: I drive through it quickly but am forced to stop on occasion, to pull over and marvel.”
Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read

“Once a reading of a book is under way, and we sink into the experience, a performance of a sort begins...

We perform a book-we perform a reading of a book. We perform a book, and we attend the performance.

(As readers, we are both the conductor and the orchestra, as well as the audience.)”
Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read

“Words are effective not because of what they carry in them, but for their latent potential to unlock the accumulated experience of the reader. Words "contain" meanings, but, more important, words potentiate meaning...”
Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read

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