Through random wandering via paths of links now forgotten, I stumbled across a wondrous fact I had somehow missed last fall: Art Spiegelman has written about his experiences living in Manhattan during the horrors of September 11, 2001, in a book entitled In the shadow of no towers. Spiegelman’s Maus is still one of the most powerful stories I’ve ever read, and this new one is rushing off to my wish list as we speak. No idea if it’s good, but my money says that it’s damned interesting.
BTW, I started linking to BookSense, which I discovered via Cradle to cradle, which is another winner.
This is my 100th post – Woot!
NY Times had a good review of it here
The background image of the cover is off course Spiegelman’s striking september 24th, 2001 New Yorker cover. His description of how it came to be, can be found here – well worth the read. That cover still strikes a nerve with me, such a long time after 9/11.
Kristjan – Thanks for the pointers. His piece on the creation of the New Yorker cover is quite excellent.
You’re welcome – I read it shortly after it was put on the ‘met, but it has stayed with me ever since. Of course, I always forget where I read it, so every time I have to link it, I have to go look for it again.
I found your blog though a link from a link from Pharyngula, but I plan to drop by again – it seems like a nice blog you have going here.
Many thanks. And again, thanks for the pointer to the piece on the cover. I really love his writing (and not just Maus) but don’t track him all that carefully, so it’s a treat to get a tip like this.