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.
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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
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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