ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Art Spiegelman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the graphic novel Maus, the story of his parents’ experience during the Holocaust. We got to sit down with Spiegelman at Brooklyn Public Library’s recording studio earlier this month to talk about Maus almost forty years after it first came out, about censorship, about the war in Gaza, and about what it means to stand up for others.
You can read a transcript of this episode on our website, and check out these further resources:
- Check out our booklist with books recommended by Art Spiegelman, and more.
- Art Spiegelman’s comic collaboration with Joe Sacco was published in The New York Review of Books earlier this year. You can check out Sacco’s Palestine and his more recent War on Gaza from the library.
- Watch Art Spiegelman discuss MetaMaus with Dan Nadel at Brooklyn Public Library.
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