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Graphic Novels Prepub Alert: Guy Delisle, Alison Bechdel & The Graphic Canon
Coming in April: more graphic novels with Middle Eastern flavors. In both April and May, look for a slew of impressive-sounding compendia: adaptations of classics, commentaries on bests, and ethnicity...
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Q&A: Alison Bechdel, Author of Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
A bit of background on me before this interview with the most daring living autobiographical writer I’ve encountered: Among my colleagues, I am known as what my father calls “a hard-ass.” I do not...
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Wyatt’s World: Celebrity-Free Memoirs
It is not all celebrities and 20-odd-years-ago composite girlfriends generating the talk about memoirs this spring. Along with books by Colin Powell, Sissy Spacek, Dan Rather, Gregg Allman, and Martin...
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Graphic Novels Reviews, May 15, 2012
Bechdel, Alison. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. Houghton Harcourt. May 2012. c.224p. ISBN 9780618982509. $22. MEMOIR Using the twin lenses of literature and psychoanalysis to peer into both past and...
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“Out” on the Shelves: 26 Graphic Novels for Pride Month 2012
With the legalization of gay marriage spreading across the country and President Obama’s recent endorsement, LGBT themes have become more pervasive in media, notably graphic novels. In prose...
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Doubling Up, Doubling Down | What We’re Reading
The busy bees at LJ, School Library Journal, and Junior Library Guild make this column so much fun. Two weeks ago, I asked them about books they were initially excited about (or thought they’d like at...
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