It Was Forty Years Ago Today…
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by Alison Bechdel
10M ago
…or forty years ago this month, anyway, that I published my first Dykes To Watch Out For cartoon in the Pride issue of the NYC feminist monthly, WomaNews. This anniversary fortuitously coincides with the release of the Audible Original version of Dykes to Watch Out For–an amazing audio adaptation of the comic strip. This project is the brainchild of the redoubtable Susie Bright, who was working at Audible, and was determined to make an audiobook happen with big stars and high production values–and so she did. The playwright Madeleine George wrote a gemlike script which covers much of the plot ..read more
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Deluxe Edition
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by Alison Bechdel
11M ago
I’m so pleased to have gotten to design a cover for the graphically gorgeous Penguin Classics Deluxe series. And for not just any book, but one of my very favorites of all time, Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. (It played a part in my memoir Are You My Mother?) The series has an iconoclastic look, very comics-inflected. So for the front cover I did a comic strip dramatizing the dinner party where Lily Briscoe recovers from Mr Tansley’s comment that women can’t paint by thinking about a compositional problem she’s having in her current painting. The back cover is another comic strip, of Mr ..read more
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Outside
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
While it’s lovely to get to talk to Terry Gross, and to have my book written about in The New Yorker, I have to say I am super excited to get a write-up on Outside magazine’s website. I’ve been reading Outside for years, since the olden times when it was a higher-brow version of Men’s Health, all bros skiing off cliffs. Now they actually have a lesbian columnist, Grace Perry, and I love what she says about The Secret to Superhuman Strength ..read more
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SSS on The New Yorker site
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
The Semi-Sadistic Seven Minute Workout The New Yorker has this excerpt from The Secret to Superhuman Strength up on Daily Shouts. I am entranced with the way it looks on my phone. Also, there’s a hilarious prose piece by Roz Chast, with whom I will be launching my book Tuesday night at the (virtual) 92nd St. Y. She discusses the terms people use for those meals when they’re using up leftovers. In our house, it’s “pantry party ..read more
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Virtual Book Tour!
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
I’m doing a bunch of online events for my new book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, starting next week. I hope you can come to one! May 4, 7 pm 92nd Street Y with Roz Chast Tickets here May 5, 7:30 pm ET Philadelphia Free Library Tickets here May 6, 5 pm ET West x Midwest with Cheryl Strayed Register here May 7, 6 pm ET City Arts & Lectures with George McCalman Tickets here May 10, 7 pm ET Brookline Booksmith/Wilbur Theatre with Stacy Schiff Tickets here May 11, 7 pm ET Chicago Humanities Festival Tickets here May 12, 7 pm ..read more
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A short disquisition on the cover of my book
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
In which I explain a bit of the concept. It’s always a strange experience to hold in my hands the freshly printed copy of a book I’ve been laboring over for years. The realization that I can no longer make any changes is a bit confounding. The finality of it! Another nail in the coffin. What’s done is done. And of course, now what? Well, I won’t have time to worry about that just yet given the barrage of interviews and podcasts I’m doing to publicize the book. And soon I will post here the glamorous book tour events that I will be doing virtually from my basement. I’m sorry to hawk the book o ..read more
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Another secret
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
Here’s another of my instructional videos. It is indeed snowing here in Vermont today on April 21st, but I made this a month ago ..read more
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Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
Okay, first of all, I am BESIDE MYSELF to see so many of the old gang back here! I’m really touched to hear from you all again, and delighted (but not surprised) that it took about ten minutes for the Maoist Orange Cake to crop up. And hard on its heels, the Trotskyist Key Lime Pie. I just listened to a really great episode of the Slate podcast Working, in which June Thomas had a conversation with Joan E. Biren (JEB) about the recent reissue of JEB’s groundbreaking 1979 book. JEB’s been doing a lot of events recently, including one with me a couple weeks ago for the bookstore Women and Childr ..read more
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Go for a ride
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
The Secret to Superhuman Strength #10, another in my series of instructional videos. Many eons ago, before facebook wrecked everything, there was a lovely, lively little community of people who gathered here on this blog. I’m going to engage in a nostalgic experiment and turn the comments back on. They will be moderated, as before, by my friend Mentor. But they will eventually get posted as long as they’re not rude, or spam, or otherwise disruptive ..read more
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My New Book
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by Alison Bechdel
3y ago
My new book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, will launch on May 4. But you can pre-order it at any of these places. I’m sorry to be flogging it in this flagrant manner, but pre-orders are apparently very important in the book world these days. Bunns and Noodle Barnes and Noble is offering signed copies here. Here’s the Indiebound link. Indiebound, in case you don’t know, is a great way to order from your local independent bookstore. If you want to buy from a women’s bookstore, here’s the link to it on Women and Children First’s site. Books-a-million. Amazon. And here it is on Bookshop.org ..read more
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