Episode 87: Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne & Amy Kurzweil

October 22, 2019

Two incredible authors discuss their debuts. First, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne tells James about her Tennessee-set HOLDING ON TO NOTHING (Blair), reading while driving (?), Dolly Parton, time machines, and two beer guitars. Then Amy Kurzweil on her depiction of three generations, including her grandmother surviving the Holocaust, in FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR (Black Balloon Books). They go over the deceptive naïveté of comics, how she learned to depict her story, and the inside dirt on NEW YORKER cartoons.  

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: http://ecshelburne.com/

Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: <a href=”https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781949467086?aff=tkwithjs”>Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING</a>

Elizabeth and James discuss: 

Blair Publishing 

Amherst College 

James Patterson 

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee 

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY 

Mark Barr 

The Novel Incubator at Grub Street 

Lisa Borders 

Michelle Hoover 

FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen 

“Little Sparrow” by Dolly Parton 

“Down in the Valley” by The Head and the Heart 

Grand Ole Opry 

TRAMPOLINE by Robert Gipe 

ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare

William Gay 

George Singleton 

Amy Kurzweil: http://amykurzweil.com/

Buy FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR: <a href=”https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781936787289?aff=tkwithjs”>Buy FLYING COUCH</a>

Amy and James discuss: 

BART SIMPSON’S GUIDE TO LIFE: A WEE HANDBOOK FOR THE PERPLEXED by Matt Groening 

CALVIN AND HOBBES by Bill Watterson 

MAUS by Art Spiegelman

FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC by Alison Bechdel 

PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi 

Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at University of Michigan 

“What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” – Marcus Lee Hansen 

THE NEW YORKER 

MOBY DICK by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Marcel Proust  Bob Mankoff