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Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
By Freddie Moore
October 23, 2014

Harvey Pekar’s Our Cancer Year, David Small’s Stitches, Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait — how do graphic novels plumb sickness so deeply?

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Eat Prey Drug: Sweet Charity
Eat Prey Drug: Sweet Charity
By Paul Kwiatkowski
October 10, 2014

Coming out of isolation and starting over in Wisconsin.

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The Art of Riot
The Art of Riot
By David Forbes
October 02, 2014

When people take to the streets to express their support or displeasure over … art?

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Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6
Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6
By Paul Kwiatkowski
September 26, 2014

A pit-stop in South Dakota reconnects friends, memories and everyone with a camera phone.

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1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
By Kevin Cortez
September 23, 2014

Released the same year, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore’s Watchmen transformed comic books into graphic novels.

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The Reanimation Library: A Home for Misfit Books
The Reanimation Library: A Home for Misfit Books
By Robert Tutton
September 17, 2014

Beginning in Brooklyn and branching off around the world, Andrew Beccone’s eclectic library is making art out of outdated books.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summer Chills [NSFW]
Eat Prey Drug: Summer Chills [NSFW]
By Paul Kwiatkowski
September 12, 2014

On the road in Idaho and Montana, a cross-country investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness takes a devastating detour through Haiti.

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The Unknown Magazine of Ginsberg, Kerouac & Burroughs
The Unknown Magazine of Ginsberg, Kerouac & Burroughs
By Helena Bento
September 09, 2014

Rhinozeros, a literary magazine from the early ‘60s which published only 10 issues, introduced Germany to some of America’s greatest poets.

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Behind the Lit: Andre Malraux, the Original Tomb Raider
Behind the Lit: Andre Malraux, the Original Tomb Raider
By Ben Simmonds
September 08, 2014

Best-known today for his novel Man’s Fate, Malraux first traced the steps that Angelina Jolie, as Lara Croft, would walk almost a century later.

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The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time
By Rebecca Golden
August 22, 2014

Art and arson on Detroit's East Side.

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