Talk: UpClose with Art Spiegelman
A conversation with Michael Silverblatt, presented by KCRW
KCRW reinvents the art of cultural conversation with UpClose, a series of intimate gatherings featuring our program hosts one-on-one with a variety of special guests from across the cultural landscape. Michael Silverblatt sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning author Art Spiegelman to reflect on and celebrate the 25th anniversary of Maus with his new book MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus.
"There's no one that I'd rather be talking to in this circumstance...This Maus and MetaMaus is a life's work which I would like to say has transformed American culture - took the book several steps further. No one wanted to acknowledge that something truly significant, profound, moving could be done in the form that people referred to as a comic book"
-- Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm
On Getting His Father's Story
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Photography by Micah Cordy
On Living in the Shadow of Maus
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Photography by Micah Cordy
On the Difficulties Facing New Comic Artists
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Photography by Micah Cordy
Complete Show
Biography
Art Spiegelman has been a staff artist and contributing editor atThe New Yorker, as well as the cofounder/coeditor of RAW, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. In addition to Maus—which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award—he is the author of Breakdowns and In the Shadow of No Towers. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly . . . and a cat.
More Stories
The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/10/10/art-spiegelman-gives-metamaus-talk-in-l-a/?mod=google_news_blog
LAist
http://laist.com/2011/10/13/interview_art_spiegelmans_meta_tour.php
LA Weekly
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/10/art_spiegelman_needs_a_cigaret.php
LA Observed
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/10/art_spiegelman_brings_mau.php
Jewish Journal
http://www.jewishjournal.com/susan_freudenheim/article/behind_the_mouse_mask_20111010/
Los Angeles Magazine
http://www.lamag.com/culturefilesblog/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10302243
About The Event
KCRW's host of Bookworm, Michael Silverblatt and Pulitzer Prize winning and groundbreaking comic artist Art Spiegelman, engaged in an open-ended and unscripted conversation about his new bookMetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus at UpClose: a series of live cultural events designed as exclusive web content for the non-commercial media entity: www.KCRW.com.
About The Series
UPCLOSE presented by KCRW
KCRW reinvents the art of cultural conversation with UpClose, a series of intimate gatherings featuring our program hosts one-on-one with a variety of special guests from across the cultural landscape.
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