Etelka Lehoczky Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Etelka Lehoczky

I wrote about @gracecellis and @HannahTempler's great graphic biography 'Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith' for @nytimesbooks. I had a different take on Highsmith from @DwightGarner -- so fun! https://t.co/fjJ8YaAZlH @ABRAMSbooks @DandQ https://t.co/NABXpOqucu

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... Modan's themes are expressed through her art, not her words. The varied styles she employs create a discordant visual rhythm and a sense of constant challenge. Contemplating the shallowness and entitlement of Modan's characters, readers may wind up reflecting on their own.

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when large noses began to be seen as unfeminine?) The nose was crucial evidence for scholars attempting to authenticate the "Byrne portrait," a purported drawing of Austen that Paula Byrne (author of The Real Jane Austen) acquired in 2011. The verdict may be undecided, but

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I'm in the Times, baby! Check out my review of Julie Doucet's 'Time Zone J' and Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer's 'Flung Out of Space.' https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/books/review/two-nostalgic-fiercely-feminist-graphic-novels.html

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Hey! You! I interviewed Alison Bechdel a couple weeks ago for the @LAReviewofBooks! I asked about her book The Secret to Superhuman Strength and her classic strip Dykes to Watch Out For! Maybe too much about Dykes to Watch Out For! Anyway read it! https://buff.ly/3CMKP5l https://t.co/3XordzjzRb

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There are some great morsels (morsel. morsel. That's a strange word isn't it?) in @DwightGarner's review of Wil Haygood’s 'Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World'. He reminisced about the "vastly underrated pleasure" of "sequential trailer-watching." ...

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One thing's for sure, we can't take Beaton's unique humor for granted anymore.

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Just FYI for whoever it is out there who's buying those $50 "mulberry silk" pillowcases to protect their hair, "mulberry silk" is just silk. 99% of silkworms eat mulberry leaves (as I learned from Barry Hughart's terrific novel 'Bridge of Birds'). There ought to

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"Even if you were to page through this book without looking at any of the words, it would still be a great read," I said about Smahtguy, Eric Orner's graphic biography of Barney Frank in my NPR review. Read more here: https://buff.ly/3Npu83Z https://t.co/iZNdk5BmO0

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Britain during the Napoleonic wars, which helps explain why Jane Austen felt the need for (in Gilbert and Gubar's term) a "cover story." Thanks to Kelly's discussion of just what it meant to have a militia quartered in one's town at that time, I'll never read Pride and Prejudice

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