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Peter Mendelsund

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  • Notable Online

Notable Online: 2/7–2/13

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 7, 2021
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/2–2/8

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 2, 2019
Saturday 2/2: Chia-Lun Chang and Lonely Christopher join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, $4:30 p.m., $5. Monday 2/4: Shomari Wills presents Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans…
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Weimar’s Book Jacket Renaissance

  • Kyle Williams
  • August 10, 2015
In a fascinating article for the Design Observer Group, Steven Heller shares some beautiful book jackets from the Weimar Republic: a veritable outpouring of artistry backed by young liberals pushing…
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Judging by the Cover

  • Kyle Williams
  • July 21, 2015
Covers not only stage an interaction between word and image, printed matter and visual representation, they also broker various connections among reader, designer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. Using Peter Mendelsund’s…
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Mendelsund

  • Matt Tanner
  • January 23, 2015
Writer, designer, and thinker Peter Mendelsund talks about book design, the tangled process of reading and perception, and his two new books, Cover and What We See When We Read.
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Sometimes Judge A Book By Its Cover

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 2, 2014
Cover designer Peter Mendelsund has released two new books about cover design. Cover collects many of the images Mendelsund has designed over his career and What We See When We…
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What Does Anna Karenina Look Like?

  • Kathryn Sukalich
  • August 20, 2014
The Paris Review has an excerpt from Peter Mendelsund’s book What We See When We Read that questions what we think we know about characters. Mendelsund points out that many of us…
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Seeing is Reading

  • Liv Lansdale
  • August 18, 2014
For those of us who haven’t glanced at e.e. cummings since high school, it’s easy to forget that literature is a visual medium. When we think about reading, our minds…
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Seeing Literature

  • Lyz Lenz
  • August 7, 2014
In the New Yorker, Peter Mendelsund talks about designing book covers for iconic works of literature. The thing that surprised me was how dogmatic people were. They felt that when…
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 8/2–8/8

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 2, 2014
Saturday 8/2: Najee Omar, Joseph Riipi, Lauren Gordon, and more read at the Boog City Small, Small Press Fair. Unnameable Books (PDF), 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., $5 suggested. Sunday…
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