Archive for August, 2004

Conversation #1

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

by James Kochalka and Craig Thompson available from Top Shelf Comics

James Kochalka has published mini format comics before, but none as slick as this collaboration with Craig Thompson. Five inches

God’s Fool

Monday, August 30th, 2004

by Mark Slouka ISBN: 0375702091

This story of two brothers ranges from the monsoon-wracked Meklong in Siam to high society Paris to flophouses in London to the Civil War-torn American South. The

American Studies

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

by Louis Menand ISBN: 0374529000

In this collection of essays, Menand considers the importance (I want to say the real importance) of fifteen cultural figures in the United States. His time frame

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Monday, August 16th, 2004

by Ann Patchett ISBN: 0060572140

Patchett's best friend was Lucy Grealy, author of Autobiography of a Face. Yes, the one with the disfigured face, the one who died of a heroin overdose