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New Graphic Novel, SEEK YOU: A Conversation with Kristen Radtke and José Orduña #Pantheon

 

Seek You: A Conversation with Kristen Radtke and José Orduña

 

Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. Through deeply insightful comics, Kristen Radtke, The Believer’s Art Director, shines a light on people’s most vulnerable and sublime moments. In a new book published by Pantheon titled “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness”, Radtke digs deep into the history of loneliness, the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains.

Join Radtke and essayist José Orduña virtually for a conversation on longing and a celebration of Seek You’s debut.

 



 

This event is co-hosted by Las Vegas’ beloved bookstore The Writer’s Block & originally appeared there on July 8th, 2021 at 5:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK TRAILER VIDEO – FRANCIS BACON: REVELATIONS by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan #Knopf

Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan chart the life and art of the formidable Francis Bacon, a towering figure in 20th century art. Through 25 choice images, the duo sketch a more varied, nuanced, and surprising character than typically known of the celebrated bon vivant. The conversation is expanded by art critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr, bringing together three luminaries of contemporary art writing.

If you CLICK HERE you can view a 1-hour video featuring these two Authors discussing this book, it’s great… check it out!!

 

 

 

 

 

New Chip Kidd Book Cover : FRANCIS BACON: REVELATIONS by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan #Knopf

 

“The book is bejeweled with sensuous detail. . . . [and] the iconoclastic charm of the artist keeps the pages turning .” –The Washington Post

“A definitive life of Francis Bacon. . . . Stevens and Swan are vivid scene setters. . . . Francis Bacon does justice to the contradictions of both the man and the art.” –The Boston Globe

A decade in the making: the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master.

Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life–from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images “so unrelievedly awful” that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992.

Bacon was a witty free spirit and unabashed homosexual at a time when many others remained closeted, and his exploits were as unforgettable as his images. He moved among the worlds of London’s Soho and East End, the literary salons of London and Paris, and the homosexual life of Tangier. Through hundreds of interviews, and extensive new research, the authors probe Bacon’s childhood in Ireland (he earned his father’s lasting disdain because his asthma prevented him from hunting); his increasingly open homosexuality; his early design career–never before explored in detail; the formation of his vision; his early failure as an artist; his uneasy relationship with American abstract art; and his improbable late emergence onto the international stage as one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In all, Francis Bacon: Revelations gives us a more complete and nuanced–and more international–portrait than ever before of this singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his equally eruptive, extraordinary art. Bacon was not just an influential artist, he helped remake the twentieth-century figure.

 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; 1st Edition (March 23, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 880 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0307271625
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0307271624
Cover Design : Chip Kidd

 

 

 

 

New Chip Kidd Book Cover : First Person Singular – Stories by Haruki Murakami #Knopf

 

First Person Singular: Stories
by Haruki Murakami

The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.

Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

The Hardcover Book (Cover Designed by Chip Kidd) is “In Stores Now”, but here’s an example of the book in audio book format:

 

https://chipkidd.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/haruki-murakami-first-person-singular-2021.mp3

 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf (April 6, 2021)
Cover Design: Chip Kidd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593318072
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593318072
Cover Design : Chip Kidd

 

 

 

Friday Night Comics Workshops – SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS, Graphic Novel by Kristen Radtke

 

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This (2017), and the forthcoming books Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (July 2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Terrible Men, a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine. But in the mean time, let’s share this video which is the whole reason for this blog post, ha ha, enjoy:

 

 

To learn more about Kristen’s work and preorder a copy of SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS while supporting The Believer and independent bookstores, head over to our friends at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/271/9781524748067 The Believer, a twelve-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. Subscribe: https://believermag.com/subscribe

American Cartoonist CHRIS WARE Awarded the Grand Prix of Angoulême 2021!

 

Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!

 

 

 

SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS Graphic Novel Book Tour 2021!

 

Listed here is a schedule for the month of July where you can join Kristen Radtke on her 2021 virtual book tour. Of course this is for her latest book, just recently published by Pantheon, SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS:

 

7/6 – 6pm EST – The Center for Fiction in conversation with Leslie Jamison

7/8 – 5pm PST – Writer’s Block and Black Mountain Institute in conversation with José Orduña

7/12 – 7pm CST – Women & Children First in conversation with Megha Majumdar

7/13 – 6pm CST – Watermarks Books & Cafe in conversation with Lisa Lucas

7/14 – 6pm EST – Harvard Bookstore in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin

7/15 – 7pm CST – Magers & Quinn Lonely Hearts Reading with Rachel Yoder and Zaina Arafat *There will be a $5 registration fee

7/19 – 7:30pm EST – Greenlight Bookstore Group Comics reading with Mira Jacob and Malaka Gharib

7/20 – 7pm EST – Still North Books and Bar in partnership with the Center for Cartoon Studies and with Leise Hook

7/22 – 7pm PST – Green Apple Books in conversation with R.O. Kwon

 

 

 

 

Things I Gots: “The Peanuts Poster Collection” A New Book by Chip Kidd

 

Okay, real quick, we wanna thank Jimmy over at IEP Films over at YouTube for this great review! This video looks at Chip Kidd’s New Book,  “THE PEANUTS POSTER COLLECTION”. This is a nice collection of 20 removable, frameable prints you can take out & display… oh yeah, here’s the video already!!

 



 

 

 

 

 

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR, JUNE 28th: Lawrence Wright’s THE PLAGUE YEAR

 

COMING JUNE 28th: This is a FREE Online VIRTUAL “BOOK TOUR” EVENT (But You Must Register).

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lawrence Wright for a virtual event in celebration of his new book, The Plague Year.

The Plague Year is an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19: its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it.

 

This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mGcW7C2fQpGP-Stb1uMfbw.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the event on Monday June 28 at 7:00 pm CT.

 

The Plague Year will be published on June 6, to pre-order a copy visit Magic City Books or shop online:  https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-plague-year/536.

 

 

About The Plague Year

From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic.

Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function–with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential.

In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew as we lived through it.

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas. His recent novel, The End of October, was a New York Times best seller. Wright’s books have received many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.

 

 

 

Spark & Fire Podcast: Chip Kidd Interview About the Dinosaur Cover for Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park”

 

SPARK & FIRE PODCAST recently did a profile on the Designer who created the Iconic “Jurassic Park” Book Cover. Back in the day, a Designer named Chip Kidd got a dream assignment: Create an iconic book cover for a soon-to-be-blockbuster: Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. And when the pressure to perform is that high, it’s easy to get creatively paralyzed.

 

 

SPARK & FIRE follows Chip on his journey in and out of stuck-ness as he creates one of the best-known book covers of the 20th century. He tells the story in his own funny, pointed words, with lots of smart, actionable advice for anyone setting out on their own creative quest.

Here’s the podcast you can listen to here (embedded down below),  but if you want the full effect please be sure to visit their website where they have a ton of photographs that go along with this interview. We have shown just a few examples here but if you visit this LINK then you can check them ALL out!

 

https://chipkidd.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Spark-Kidd-V9-BP-Mix.mp3