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SPINE-A Conversation with Peter Mendelsund on Writing

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In recent years, Peter Mendelsund has been shifting his career from designing books to writing them. The former Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf already has a couple of non-fiction titles to his name – What We See When We Read and Cover, with another, The Look of the Book, on the way – and has now stepped into fiction with Same Same, a twisting metafictional meditation on creativity. We asked him a few questions about this latest adventure between the covers. Book tours, editors, interviews, etc. – it's a heck of a shift from the solitary calm of the cover designer. What is it like seeing the other side of the publishing circus? It’s amazingly satisfying! First off, I’m not sure my life as a designer was ever particularly calm. Working in-house meant that I was constantly at the beck-and-call of editors, marketers, sales team members, publicists, production folks … basically anyone who felt that I owed them something. As an addendum to this thought: it never particularly matte

In recent years, Peter Mendelsund has been shifting his career from designing books to writing them. The former Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf already has a couple of non-fiction titles to his name – What We See When We Read and Cover, with another, The Look of the Book, on the way – and has now stepped into fiction with Same Same , a twisting metafictional meditation on creativity. We asked him a few questions about this latest adventure between the covers. Book tours, editors, interviews, etc. – it's a heck of a shift from the solitary calm of the cover designer. What is it like s

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