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22) Love that bunch
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area's underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn't worry about self-flattery. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego, Bunch, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles...
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"Her career involved working in Russia's far eastern north, home of Stalin's gulag, in the same Russia from which all her grandparents had fled. This alone was unusual. In addition, this work overwhelmed her family life, making her unavailable (and inaccessible) as mother, as wife. Yet she was absolutely driven to this for reasons she comes to discover. When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home tells the story of Elisa's discovery of a cache of letters...
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"Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting...
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