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Guggenheim Fellowship

arcanechili — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:57:46 +0000

[This is Mentor. I'm sending out a quick message until she has a chance to post in more detail, but as you may have heard Alison Bechdel has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for 2012.

Here are some pointers to a few of the announcements:

- On the Guggenheim Foundation website.

- From the LA Times .

- Here's my favorite, from the Burlington (VT) Free Press:
Bolton woman recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship

--Mentor]

moose, marriage, pocket history of sex

Alison Bechdel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:56:39 +0000

My pal Cathy Resmer who works for our local alt weekly Seven Days took some great videos yesterday morning at the Statehouse. 300 people descended on the Governor’s office to tell him how peeved they were with his announcement that he’s going to veto the same sex marriage bill pending in the legislature. Things are getting pretty exciting up here in the north woods.

As evidenced also by these fresh honkin’ moose tracks I found behind the house this morning.

See how close it was to the house? My glove is next to the hoofprint.

And look! The book review I’ve been telling you about has finally been published. I reviewed Jane Vandenburgh’s memoir A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century for the New York Times Book Review this week. It’s a graphic review of a regular, non-graphic book–it was a fun exercise, and I was very pleased to be invited to try it.

2009?!

Alison Bechdel — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:21:32 +0000

Whew! Thanks for all the menopausal remedies. I’m gonna go chug some Barlean’s flax seed oil, insert a hormone pellet in my, my, …you know, my noun, then massage some neutral Kiwi shoe polish into my scalp.

Look, I just got the latest issue of Granta. This is a very fancy schmancy literary journal, to which I have contributed a short graphic essay.

See my name on the cover? Right there with Siri Hustvedt and Ali Smith and Jonathan Lethem? There’s also a clever story inside by the wonderful and terrifyingly prolific Emma Donoghue.

Meanwhile, Holly decided we should move the birdfeeders closer to the house. Dr. Winnicott thinks this was a splendid idea. Click the below picture, it’s a video. I still haven’t figured out how to make my videos show up with that handsome, graphically lucid and self-explanatory “play” arrow on ‘em, which would make this entire sentence, as well as the last one, unnecessary.