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URL:https://witherlelibrary.net/events/lets-talk-about-it-15/
SUMMARY:Let's Talk About It
DESCRIPTION:This year's theme is Banned Books. For an overview please go to
  Let's Talk About It.  Moderated by Annaliese Jakimides. To register plea
 se contact the library.\n\nMaus by Art Spiegelman\n\nArt Spiegelman didn
 ’t set out to reinvent a swath of his chosen field. He was only trying t
 o tap his family history\, even as he sat clear across the country estrang
 ed from his New York father\, several years after his mother committed sui
 cide.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpiegelman\, having survived a nervous breakdown whil
 e living in New York\, had set out for San Francisco\, where by 1972 he wa
 s thriving in the underground comix scene. An assignment came for a three-
 page comic\, and so he decided to emotionally unpack his parents’ Holoca
 ust. His father had survived Auschwitz\; could he tap Dad’s harrowing ex
 periences\, despite their differences?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“All I knew was: T
 his is unfinished business\,” Spiegelman tells The Post’s Comic Riffs
  by phone from France\, while traveling to a festival.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe 
 drew the comic\, but the depth of this powerful personal wellspring did no
 t ebb. Several years later\, Spiegelman moved back East. “I went to visi
 t him with a tape recorder\,” the cartoonist says of his father\, Vladek
 \, who lived in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens\, “and figured this
  would be the start of something.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Something” turned
  out to be “Maus\,” the Pulitzer-winning graphic memoir\, a landmark p
 roject that led the American public\, including many literary critics\, to
 ward seeing comics as a serious art form. (Washington Post)\n\n
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