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Midweek Miscellany

May 2, 2012

This Precarious Balancing Act — Maud Newton talks to Alison Bechdel, author of (the astonishingly good) Fun Home, about her new graphic novel Are You My Mother?. Fascinating stuff: I feel like cartooning for me has been like a way to be a crypto-writer. I couldn’t ever say I wanted to be a writer because my mother [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

April 18, 2012

Insufficiently Bored — An essay by author Toby Litt on technology and reading (and writing) at Granta: Proposition: ‘The human race is no longer sufficiently bored with life to be distracted by an art form as boring as the novel.’ Perhaps novels will continue, but instead of the machine it will be the connectivity that [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

April 3, 2012

Comics critic Paul Gravett profiles cartoonist and illustrator Luke Pearson. Coincidently, Pearson has created an amazing cover for a new Penguin edition of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (pictured above). Desirable Comparisons — Part three of Mark Medley’s series on House of Anansi for The National Post: “We want it to appear as a very serious, big, ambitious book,” [...]

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The Book of the Future by Grant Snider

April 1, 2012

Lava lamps, egg chairs, and “and outfits that would look great in a B-52s music video”… Grant Snider’s vision of the book of the future for The New York Times Sunday Book Review!  

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Something for the Weekend

March 30, 2012

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is out next week. Ware’s World – Seth Kushner’s photos of cartoonist Chris Ware in his Chicago home.  Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics by Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner is published by Powerhouse Books in May. Redefining ‘Contrarian’ — Armond White on film critic Pauline Kael, and her reputation as a [...]

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