Eight minutes with Alison Bechdel on her motivations, insecurities, and more:
What motivates me? Deep insecurity. I do think to some extent it is an incompleteness or a neurosis on my part… [H]onestly that’s why anyone pursues any avenue of creativity — it’s because they’re trying to get something that they’re missing.
See also Bechdel’s feelings on seeing a finished copy of Fun Home for the first time (” I’m deeply pleased, but not elated, for some reason. I feel a bit like Mr. Earbrass…”), her discovery that “the actual documentary truth” recorded in the childhood journals she consulted while writing the book “was almost always richer and more surprising” than the way she remembered things happening, and her validation of your internet addiction.
Me Gusta
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Two of our stories, Lifted and The Instigators, are Digital Media Finalists for the 2012 National Magazine Awards!
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GJ1214b, a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth
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“A Public Space editor Brigid Hughes will join Graywolf Press as contributing editor as part of a new collaborative venture between the literary...”
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Aug. 13, 1969: “Data processing cards joined ticker tape in paper blizzard,” read the caption on this photograph, which was...
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Junot Díaz, below, is coming out with a new book in September,...”
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Steal Like An Artist, a book by Austin Kleon
My new book is out in bookstores today and online:
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This Week's Readings
Good Monday! Before I get to the Weekly Readings, I’d like to share a few more of my fave lit sites (again, in no...
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Every Thing is its Own Reward
“There is no judgment other than your community, the era you live, your conscience. When you’re gone,...
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I have just learned that in some parts of the UK, a sandwich is called a butty.
Now you know too!
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If someone wants to publish this kids book well they can just let me know
