Anyway, here's a sample page from the excerpt. If you have the iPad version of The New Yorker I highly encourage you to check this out.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Alison Bechdel's “Are You My Mother?” Previewed in The New Yorker
The April 23, 2012 issue of The New Yorker has a profile of Alison Bechdel, whose latest book Are You My Mother? comes out next month. In the iPad version of the issue, the article is accompanied by a seventeen-page excerpt of the upcoming graphic novel as well. It's a great read -- the short sample touches on a wide variety of meaty topics (dreams, memory, memoirs, parents) in a short space -- and leaves me anxious to read the whole work. I especially enjoyed the way Bechdel weaves the details of her and her parents' lives to accentuate the parallels and patterns that keep popping up. I know I've been noticing this a lot lately in my life so it really resonated with me.
Anyway, here's a sample page from the excerpt. If you have the iPad version of The New Yorker I highly encourage you to check this out.
Anyway, here's a sample page from the excerpt. If you have the iPad version of The New Yorker I highly encourage you to check this out.
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Ms Bechdel set an incredible benchmark to reach with this second Graphic Memoir. The popular and critical reception of Fun Home was enormous. I read the 17 page excerpt. I think she has done it again.
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I am surprised I haven't picked this up yet. And I really have nothing to say, other than the fact that I have missed you, sir, and happy to see you are still going at it, albeit infrequently.
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