Eddie Campbell, author ofThe Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard (First Second Books)
Cartoonist Eddie Campbell (co-author of From Hell with Alan Moore and author of The Fate of the Artist) presents his most recent graphic novel: a riotous tale based on the life of the eponymous acrobat who popularized the leotard.
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Atmospheric Disturbances
Written by Erin
by Rivka Galchen (St. Martin's Press, $24.00)
From an author who's already been compared to Borges, Murakami, and Pynchon, this clever and curious novel offers intriguing ideas -- doppelgangers! psychosis! love! meteorology! -- at every turn. A fascinating and promising debut.
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
Written by Rebecca
by Jan Verwoert (MIT, $16.00)
This book takes a look at one of my absolutely favorite artists, Bas Jan Ader. His piece, "In Search of the Miraculous," was an attempt to sail across the Atlantic alone. In 1976 his boat was found; he never was. In wonderfully simple language, this book uses this incident as a door to his work, and explores how emotion can be kept in art after the end of modernism and the intellectual focus of conceptualism.
Cartoonist Eddie Campbell (co-author of From Hell with Alan Moore and author of The Fate of the Artist) presents his most recent graphic novel: a riotous tale based on the life of the eponymous acrobat who popularized the leotard.
From an author who's already been compared to Borges, Murakami, and Pynchon, this clever and curious novel offers intriguing ideas -- doppelgangers! psychosis! love! meteorology! -- at every turn. A fascinating and promising debut.
This book takes a look at one of my absolutely favorite artists, Bas Jan Ader. His piece, "In Search of the Miraculous," was an attempt to sail across the Atlantic alone. In 1976 his boat was found; he never was. In wonderfully simple language, this book uses this incident as a door to his work, and explores how emotion can be kept in art after the end of modernism and the intellectual focus of conceptualism.