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    Russ Kick: The Graphic Canon, Volume 3

    This garden of literary and visual delights, edited by Russ Kick, wondrously illustrates the arc of 20th century literature by over 80 graphic artists.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Sep 19, 2013 • 28m Listen

    From

    The Diary of Anaïs Nin to

    The Wizard of Oz to

    Infinite Jest,

    The Graphic Canon Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest

    (Seven Stories Press) is a garden of literary and visual delights that wondrously illustrates the arc of twentieth-century literature in diverse adaptations by over 80 graphic artists. Series editor

    Russ Kick revisits his experience assembling the three total volumes of

    The Graphic Canon over an industrious three-year period, and talks about the series' perfectly pitched combination of the populist and the highbrow.

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      Michael Silverblatt

      host, 'Bookworm'

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      Connie Alvarez

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      Alan Howard

      Bookworm Collaborator

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