Alison Bechdel

Motherhood by the Book is led by Claire, VB staffer, mother of a toddler, and stepmother of an adolescent.

The book group meets on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm on the mezzanine level, next to our poetry section and near the Book Fare Cafe, for an hour of spirited discussion of books that celebrate the trials, tribulations, and rewards of motherhood, and what it means to be a mother. This group is by no means exclusive to moms with kids still at home, but much of the selection may be geared toward issues that those moms face. We will read fiction, non-fiction, and parenting books.

Sun, Apr 13, 2pm

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Diesel Readers back to the store to discuss Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel on Monday, March 24th at 7pm.Alison Bechdel's graphic novel explores her complicated, fraught relationship with her mother, a voracious reader, a lover of music, a passionate amateur actor - in short, a woman whose artistic ambitions loomed large over her daughter's life. When Alison was seven, her mother abruptly stopped touching or kissing her goodnight, a decision which opened the chasm that defined their relationship. Bechdel explores this gulf, interweaving the work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and anecdotes from both her childhood and her adult life with gorgeous illustrations.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

For 25 years, Alison Bechdel created the immensely popular cult comic strip ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’, which was syndicated in 50 publications across the US. The infamous ‘Bechdel Test’, a widely adopted formula for testing whether a film or book is gender biased, grew out of a scene in her strip. This highly effective gender bias test asks whether the story features at least two women, who talk to each other, about something other than a man.

The Bechdel Test has since been adopted by many reviewers, with pressure brought to bear on Hollywood to increase the number of movies produced that pass the test. Thus immortalised in the popular lexicon, Alison Bechdel has become a true cultural icon. In the Guardian, Laura Miller branded Alison a ‘lesbian Woody Allen’, describing her as ‘comical and … adorable, a quality that allows her to carry readers where they might not otherwise be keen to go.’

Her work has been at the forefront of the move of comics into the literary mainstream, particularly her rave-reviewed books Fun House – Time magazine’s Best Book of 2006 – and Are You My Mother? In these memoirs about her parents, Alison explores her relationship with her father, a closeted gay man who died in a probable suicide months after his daughter came out to him, and her mother, an aspiring actress who became a frustrated housewife after her marriage. (rodneyvc)… (meer)

"Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

"Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities." Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach. Kelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and publish the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

Join us in celebrating the paperback release of Are You My Mother? with Alison Bechdel herself!

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, Are You My Mother? is a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, People, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life—queer and otherwise—considered "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period." (Ms.) Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.

Location: Street: 191 Bank Street Additional: City: Burlington, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05401 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

White Rock Reads is a book club for readers interested in all kinds of genres and subjects. Contemporary, international and eclectic, we read widely and in community.

Saturday, April 27.
11AM -12:30 PM.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2007) by Alison Bechdel.
Fun Home is a contemporary classic in the genre of graphic fiction. Time Magazine called it: "A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other." (ChrisConway)… (meer)

The LGBT Campus Center is honored to welcome artist, author, and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel to UW-Madison for their Out and About Week keynote event. Alison's influential work on queer identity, political awareness, and personal narrative will resonate with students and the campus community. Don't miss this evening with one of today's most prominent queer public figures!

A Room of One's Own will be at the event (which is on campus at Elvejhem L160)selling copies of Bechdel's second memoir, Are you my mother (newly out in paperback!) at this event, so stop by and say hi!

For more information about this event, check out the LGBT Campus Center's Out & About Month Facebook page!

Location: Street: 750 University Ave Additional: Chazen Museum of Art, Room Elvehjem L160 City: Madison, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53706 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)

Perhaps more aptly named the "sometimes new/always noteworthy" book club, here is a place to discover recent gems and to revisit old favorites. Come join Jenn and Danithan the 4th Monday of every month at 5PM. This month's book is Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)