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FICTION / GRAPHIC NOVELS Growing up between the wars
A CAREER that started with screenplays and short story writing pivoted to personal comic-strip con- fessions with Shapiro’s series called Crushable:
HONORIA: A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP Janice Shapiro Phantagraphics April 1
FICTION / SHORT STORIES Hebrew through the prism of AI
My Life in Crushes from Ricky Nelson to Vig- go Mortensen. (Other subjects of affectionate celebrity worship: Neil Young and Mary Tyler Moore.) Her debut graphic novel focuses on real-life socialite Honoria Murphy Donnelly, who died in 1998 at age 81. In this treatment, the daughter of the couple from modernist Eu- rope is paired for a summer with the daughter of American family friends, and the two try and figure out their place amidst the swirling social scenes along the French Riviera of 1929.
AUTOCORRECT: STORIES Etgar Keret (translated by Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverston) Riverhead Books May 27
WORKING WITH RESEARCHERS at Tel Aviv University, the celebrated graphic novel writer turned short-story specialist spent much of the past year trying to figure out if artificial intelligence could write better fiction than people, only to come away feeling that his own students had more human tal- ent than anything generated by machines. Through- out his seventh original bound collection, consisting of 33 separate pieces, humanity navigates technolo- gy — and the two tend not to get along.
NON-FICTION / BIOGRAPHY Crumbs of creativity
FICTION / YOUNG ADULT Summer of discord
ROBERT CRUMB began his six- decade-long career by illustrat- ing greeting cards and proceed- ed to raunchy characters like Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat — and, among his later works, an illustrat- ed version of The Book of Genesis (although its explicit portrayals of the likes of Adam and Eve weren’t necessarily as subversive as most anticipated). The underground comics pioneer eventually settled down in the south of France with his wife and collaborator Aline Kominsky-Crumb. This is the stuff that big biographies are made of. CRUMB: A CARTOONIST’S LIFE Dan Nadel Scribner April 15
A COMING-OF-AGE novel about a Canadian camp counsellor who falls in love with one of the Israeli soldiers imported for the summer to deal with a staff shortfall — even though his role in the IDF is at odds with her own stance about Israel. It’s the follow-up to Rubble Children , a collection of short stories based on a fictional Reform synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, where hormonal urges similarly collide
with the strug- gles to navi- gate narratives about the Mid- dle East.
LAKE BURNTSHORE Aaron Kreuter ECW Press April 22
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