September 17th, 2006
The UK edition of Fun Home was just released, and got a nice review in the Times. Thanks to Pam Isherwood for alerting me to it. I don’t understand why there needs to be a separate UK edition, though. It’s not like it has to be translated. Unless maybe they threw in some spanners or torches. Or puddings maybe.
Another thing I don’t understand is these bugs that keep appearing in my basement. They’re some kind of ants that crawl up through cracks in the floor, metamorphose into winged bugs every night, and in the morning they’re all dead.
September 17th, 2006
I’m leaving in a week for another book tour. I thought making a map of where I was going might help me to pre-emptively (god, that word is ruined forever) adjust to the psychic displacement entailed by serial air travel. In case you can’t decipher it, here’s the text version, too.
Fun Home Fall Tour
Austin, Texas
Sunday, September 24, 2006, 3:00 pm
BookPeople
603 N Lamar Blvd.
Austin TX 78703
(512) 472-4288
Atlanta, Georgia
Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 8:00 pm
Outwrite Bookstore
991 Piedmont Ave. NE
Alanta, GA 30309
404.607.0082
Miami, Florida
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 8:00 pm
Books & Books, Miami Beach
933 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach FL
305-532-3222
Co-sponsored by Miami-Dade G&L Chamber of Commerce
Asheville, North Carolina
Friday, September 29, 2006, 7:00 pm
Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café,
55 Haywood St. Asheville, NC 28801
828-254-6734
St. Louis, Missouri
Saturday, 30 September, 2006, 7:00 pm
Left Bank Books
399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis MO 63108
314-367-6731
Washington, D.C.
Monday, October 2, 2006, 8:00 pm
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20008
202-363-7663
Cleveland, Ohio
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 7:00 pm
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Legacy Village
24519 Cedar Road, Lyndhurst OH 44124
216.912.1981
Oberlin College
Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 4:30 pm
I’ll be giving a lecture about Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home for the Comparative American Studies program. But anyone’s welcome to come. It’s in the Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center, 119 Woodland St., Oberlin, OH
University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 7:00 pm
The School of Art & Design and the Office of LGBT Affairs is bringing me in. I’ll be speaking at the East Quad auditorium. This is a National Coming Out Day event.
Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 7:00 pm
Pages, ‘This is Not A Reading Series’
http://www.pagesbooks.ca/
I’ll be having a conversation with Ivan Coyote and Zoe Withall.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W,, Toronto.
Wed, Oct 11, 7:30-10pm (doors 7pm), free
Coming up:
London and Paris at the end of October
NY ComicCon in February
September 11th, 2006
Whoa. Guttergeek, The Discontinuous Review of Graphic Narrative, just posted a lovely, academic review of Fun Home by Michael Moon, a professor at Emory. It has some interesting psychoanalytic insights. If you like that sort of thing. Which I do.
Take for example the amazing picture (top of p. 44) of her child-self in silhouette, observing her father laboring in his embalmer’s role over a bearded and naked corpse from which he appears to have extracted heart, lungs, stomach and bowels through a gaping hole in the front of the body….Here is meticulous, Thomas Eakins-like physical detail, in both drawing and writing. But here too (although we may overlook it) is probably the book’s most harrowing visualization of Bechdel’s worst fears about her father: that he lacked, to a radical degree, some kind of crucially important interiority.
