Arts
Two incredible authors discuss their debuts. First, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne tells James about her Tennessee-set HOLDING ON TO NOTHING (Blair), reading while driving (?), Dolly Parton, time machines, and two beer guitars. Then Amy Kurzweil on her depiction of three generations, including her grandmother surviving the Holocaust, in FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR (Black Balloon Books). They go over the deceptive naïveté of comics, how she learned to depict her story, and the inside dirt on NEW YORKER cartoons. - Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: http://ecshelburne.com/ Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING Elizabeth and James discuss: Blair Publishing Amherst College James Patterson TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY Mark Barr The Novel Incubator at Grub Street Lisa Borders Michelle Hoover FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen "Little Sparrow" by Dolly Parton "Down in the Valley" by The Head and the Heart Grand Ole Opry TRAMPOLINE by Robert Gipe ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare William Gay George Singleton - Amy Kurzweil: http://amykurzweil.com/ Buy FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR: Buy FLYING COUCH Amy and James discuss: BART SIMPSON'S GUIDE TO LIFE: A WEE HANDBOOK FOR THE PERPLEXED by Matt Groening CALVIN AND HOBBES by Bill Watterson MAUS by Art Spiegelman FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC by Alison Bechdel PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at University of Michigan "What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember." - Marcus Lee Hansen THE NEW YORKER MOBY DICK by Nathaniel Hawthorne Marcel Proust Bob Mankoff - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/