In case you missed it back in September, here's John Sayles's review of William Kennedy's latest novel, Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, which appeared on the front page of the New York Times Book Review.
Sayles visits Monday, February 27th.
"Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, is his most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras, a jazz piece unafraid to luxuriate in its roots as blues or popular ballad or to spin out into less melodic territory."
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Showing posts with label graphic novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic novels. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2012
John Sayles on Bill Kennedy's "Chango"
Monday, February 13, 2012
Graphic Novels for Credit
In 2010, Playboy magazine named Adam Johnson's course on graphic novels at Stanford (co-taught with Dan Archer) one of the 20 Best College Courses in America.
From Stanford University News, Oct. 28, 2010: Last month Playboy magazine named the project one of the 20 best college courses in America, hailing Johnson and Archer as "graphic pioneers" among those who are "reinventing the classroom."
"What we're seeing is a rise in what graphic art can do as a type of activism and as an education tool," Archer told Playboy.
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