Alison Bechdel
Introduced by Hillary Chute

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:30 PM

Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

Parking: Lots 26, 30, and the College Avenue Deck
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Admission: Free and open to the Rutgers community and the general public

The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

A Conversation with Alison Bechdel
Moderated by Richard E. Miller

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
3:00 PM

Writers House, Murray Hall 002
510 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ

Alison Bechdel has recently published her graphic narrative Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy (2006).  Acclaimed by many sources as one of the best books of 2006—it was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist—Fun Home  is a coming out story and a family memoir. The title refers to the funeral home that was a family business, while offering an ironic comment on the not-so-fun events that took place there. Engrossing, thoughtful, funny and heartrending, the book has become a runaway hit. The New York Times called it a “pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions.” Bechdel’s long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, which has become a countercultural institution since its inception in 1983, is now syndicated in dozens of papers, translated into several languages, collected in a series of award-winning books, and available online. 

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