THINGS WE LOST TO WATER: A NOVEL by Eric Nguyen A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is “vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST • Named one of the “Fifteen Books to Watch for” by The New York Times When […]
Since Kristen Radtke’s latest Graphic Novel, “SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS (Pantheon)”, just came out we thought we would share one of it’s early book reviews. This one was written by Louisa Ermelino over at PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Please besure to check it out!!
Seek You: A Conversation with Kristen Radtke and José Orduña Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. Through deeply insightful comics, Kristen Radtke, The Believer’s Art Director, shines a light on people’s most vulnerable and sublime moments. In a new book published by Pantheon titled “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness”, Radtke digs deep into the history of loneliness, the ways in which […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan chart the life and art of the formidable Francis Bacon, a towering figure in 20th century art. Through 25 choice images, the duo sketch a more varied, nuanced, and surprising character than typically known of the celebrated bon vivant. The conversation is expanded by art critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr, bringing together three luminaries of contemporary art writing. If you CLICK HERE you can view a 1-hour video featuring these two […]
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and […]
Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This (2017), and the forthcoming books Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (July 2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Terrible Men, a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine. But in the mean time, let’s share this video which is the whole reason for this blog post, ha ha, […]
Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!
Listed here is a schedule for the month of July where you can join Kristen Radtke on her 2021 virtual book tour. Of course this is for her latest book, just recently published by Pantheon, SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS: 7/6 – 6pm EST – The Center for Fiction in conversation with Leslie Jamison 7/8 – 5pm PST – Writer’s Block and Black Mountain Institute in conversation with José Orduña 7/12 – 7pm CST – Women […]
Okay, real quick, we wanna thank Jimmy over at IEP Films over at YouTube for this great review! This video looks at Chip Kidd’s New Book, “THE PEANUTS POSTER COLLECTION”. This is a nice collection of 20 removable, frameable prints you can take out & display… oh yeah, here’s the video already!!
SPARK & FIRE PODCAST recently did a profile on the Designer who created the Iconic “Jurassic Park” Book Cover. Back in the day, a Designer named Chip Kidd got a dream assignment: Create an iconic book cover for a soon-to-be-blockbuster: Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. And when the pressure to perform is that high, it’s easy to get creatively paralyzed. SPARK & FIRE follows Chip on his journey in and out of stuck-ness as he creates one of […]