Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce and Me

Helen Weaver's Beat memoir brings Greenwich Village of the 1950s to life.

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

“I am the man who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud quoted by Helen Weaver

Helen Weaver’s account of  her early days in Greenwich Village is misleadingly titled. Weaver, a new age author and translator nominated for a National Book Award in 1977 for her reading of Antonin Artaud,…

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Digging Up A Deadly Past

Joe Sacco's Footnotes In Gaza reminds us that senseless killing has a long history in the Palestinian territories.

June 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The Gaza Flotilla Raid in May that left nine dead and dozens wounded has already faded into the background of oil-soaked news. While in Seattle earlier this month, the Rabbit witnessed attempts at keeping the issue alive: dueling protests on the University of Washington campus in which both bullhorned sides…

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Insider’s Take

Gregoire Bouillier's present is a product of his past

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

The author of The Mystery Guest explains his strange conception, his twisted upbringing and how a glimpse of a friend’s naked mother, followed by a street riot, seems to repeat itself every time he falls in love.

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The Illustrated Book Review

March 29th, 2009 · No Comments

We’ve written before about comics as a vehicle for memoir. Now comes Alison Bechdel to show how comics can be applied to memoir criticism. Bechdel’s illustrated review of Jane Vandenburgh’s A Pocket History of Sex In the Twentieth Century: A Memoir in the March 29 New York Times Book Review contains all the…

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See Murakami Run

The loneliness of the long distance novelist...

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“Long distance running suits my personality,“ writes Haruki Murkami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Murakami’s memoir isn’t a book exclusively for runners, nor does it try to make running a grand metaphor for life or writing, though there’s some of that (Chapter Four: “Most of…

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