In Satin Island, the novel’s narrator, an anthropologist, succumbs to a vivid fever dream in which he finds himself flying offshore over an island—an “excrescence, a protuberance”—of waste, runoff ...
Peter Mendelsund
Peter Mendelsund is Associate Art Director of Alfred A. Knopf. He has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today” and the Wall Street Journal has called his designs “the most instantly recognizable and iconic in contemporary fiction.” He is the author of two books: What We See When We Read and Cover. 
