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| Monday, May 18, 2009 12:35PM | | | | Adrian Tomine & The Brooklyn School | Tags: shortcomings, adrian tomine, tatsumi, human rights, brooklyn school, political correctness
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Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine.
Drawn & Quarterly, 2007. 108 pages.
Adrian Tomine is not a bold new voice in comics. He has already arrived. He has met with success, drawing covers for The New Yorker and illustrations for Rolling Stone. He has also published the series Optic Nerve since he was in high school, and released two volumes of short stories. His longer narrative Shortcomings is a humorous culmination of meditations on race and relationships.
While Tomine has already arrived, he is on the crest of a new wave of creative artists that I call the 'Brooklyn School'.
Shortcomings follows Ben Tenaka, a thirty-something Asian American who manages a movie theatre in Oakland. Ben's relationship... | | | | | | | Friday, May 2, 2008 1:18PM | | | | Personal narrative and public.... | Tags: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, South of the Border, Brooklyn, nomads, private, public, marginal, autobiography, imagination, women writers.
| | | Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa and Honduras/El Salvador author Horacio Castallanos novelist and journalists both read a passage from a novel in English, and then sat down for a talk with playwright Nathalie Handal.
Nathalie Handal kicked off the exchange with a funny and revealing anecdote: Carmen Boullosa had just published a novel that was getting a lot of attention, and one of Mexico City famous critics called her up and said, you have to send me a new copy of your book immediately. I am missing five pages, and I can't wait to finish your book. By the way I really enjoyed when your mother made love to a priest! Boullosa was stunned: "it's a novel," she said. "I's not about my mother. My... | | | | | |
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