Comments on: Unstrung

By: K.B.

K.B. — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:37:08 +0000

Speaking of mistakes: I found one, too: on page 77 A.B. has five fingers (not including the thumb) on her left hand…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:29:21 +0000

Just finished Fun Home. It was amazing!! I couldn’t put it down and the ending totally made me cry. I’ve been reading your strip for many years now & as soon as I saw the review in the NY Times I ran out to get the book. I’ve always especially enjoyed your books because I think we’re almost the same age (I was born in 1961). I was in college during the Women’s Pentagon Action too, and I also came out before I actually was involved with a woman. I’m always amazed by all the details you remember from childhood and college, like the books everyone was reading and the lines from “Bewitched” and “The Brady Bunch” (I loved Jan, too).

Awesome book!!
Lisa Ochs
San Francisco

By: sewdorky

sewdorky — Wed, 17 May 2006 00:47:24 +0000

Fun Home is absolutely wonderful (lucky enough to read an advance copy). Looking forward to coming to your University Boo Store event in Seattle!

By: valentina

valentina — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:32:00 +0000

there will be an italian translation, I hope.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:39:00 +0000

Allison–I work for a book agent and your galley arrived late last week as a gift to my Boss. While Boss isn’t into the graphic-novel trend, so I snatched it up and am devouring FUN HOME. As a recent college grad who hopes to continue my education through cultural criticism (someday…through a Master’s maybe?), I find your book pivotal in its blending of literary and visual strength.

Bravo!

Will there be more?

By: Farah

Farah — Tue, 09 May 2006 21:14:00 +0000

Congratulations.

Must get a copy.

By: e_journeys

e_journeys — Tue, 09 May 2006 05:52:00 +0000

Congratulations!

I wouldn’t sweat the lack of elation, especially if you’re decompressing from the whole process. There’s only so much adrenalin to go around.

Like amysue I have fond memories of New Words from my Massachusetts days — and happily wear the signed T-shirt you did for their 25th year. Learned recently that they’ve moved to the YWCA building.

Am adding The Unstrung Harp to Fun Home on my Must Order List. Another novel that hits the writing process on the nail for me is Ursula Hegi’s Intrusions.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 May 2006 21:35:00 +0000

Congratulations!

I’m married to a novelist, and half our friends are writers of something or other, and from my observations The Unstrung Harp is the single most perfect description of writing a novel I have ever encountered.

Also, nearly as funny as DTWOF.

By: Paula Martinac

Paula Martinac — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:16:00 +0000

Hey Alison -

Congratulations! I’m looking forward to reading “Fun Home.” And your comment about “The Unstrung Harp” struck a chord – I read it for the first time last summer at the Gorey museum in Yarmouthport, Mass. Have you been there? I stood in the library reading it and laughing with a sick kind of writer’s recognition.

Best wishes with the book!
Paula (formerly known as Paoul)

By: Bookishgrump

Bookishgrump — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:11:00 +0000

AB,
It sounds like the accomplishment will take time to sink in. Try not to push yourself to be “perfectly self-actualized about it all” (a la Mo and her bathing suit blues). Do something else that you enjoy doing anyway, and maybe elation over the book will sneak up on you.

(Oh yeah — congratulations!)

Jaibe,
The Publisher’s Weekly review on the Powell’s site does reveal a lot, doesn’t it? The Powell’s marketing department would likely want to know that some Bechdel fans consider it a spoiler.

Their e-mail address is Marketing/PR: marketing@powells.com.

The toll-free customer service line is Toll Free: (800) 291-9676.