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...wrote a pageant depicting the extermination of 2 million Jews--an accurate figure as of 1943. It was officially shunned, marginalized. "This generational thing is s____," says Robert Kotlowitz, noting the virulent anti-Semitism he encountered in the Army. He's the author of Before Their Time, a powerful memoir of wartime infantry service. He says that as the son of a cantor who had been trying desperately to get family members out of Warsaw since 1937, he "believed in the war." Believed, that is, in halting the genocide he knew was taking place. But his book is not about...
...Artist," ($13.95, 128pp.) should not be confused with books like Lee & Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," or Will Eisner's "Graphic Storytelling." Consider the cover: a man sits with his head in his hand, thinking. This book means to be part memoir, part essay on the nature of being a capitol-A Artist, and part history of Campbell's chosen art form...
...instructional book, "Alec: How to be an Artist," applies to only one person: Eddie Campbell. Campbell cops to this right in the title, with that "Alec" part. Other artists will do better by taking the book's combination of memoir and essay as an example of comix' mostly untested non-fiction possibilities. The rest of us casual readers will treat the book like a smorgasbord, and take away those very nice parts that appeal most...
...medieval Tuscan village of Sutri (pop. about 5,000) is inhabited, says Rips, by sundry eccentrics, among them a blind bootmaker, an old-timer known to possess supernatural powers in the laying of hands on ailing tractor engines and an illiterate postman. In this slight travel memoir, Rips, a displaced Nebraskan, limns the local characters, as well as the Etruscan culture that bred them. These drolleries are best digested over an espresso at a Sutri cafe; failing that, any Starbucks will...
...story of a woman born on January 1, 1900, but we eventually figure out that it’s just Bruno talking, and talking faster and faster the further along we get. He seems to be in a hurry. The novel takes a wholeheartedly absurd stab at the memoir genre, and, according to its own publicity materials, succeeds admirably (as books always do in publicity handouts). The life of the century through the life of this woman with the little blue dress, as it were. The memoir of this “woman” begins with her childhood...