Emma Sarappo

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. For many people in their early 20s, graduating from college is both a significant milestone—perhaps the most important of their young life—and a rupture that leaves them utterly unmoored.

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Sandra Cisneros in The Paris Review: How does a woman writer make her own money? How does she find the time to write? As a young woman, I scoured every …

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Dykes to Watch Out For, the long-running lesbian comic strip that launched Alison Bechdel’s career, is full of kitchen-table drama and dry humor, but its title is also more literal than those elements might suggest. Watch out, strip after strip said: Here comes Mo, the main character and author-avatar, spinning her way onto the page like a flustered Tasmanian devil of ’90s-lefty anxiety.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. When I went outside to read yesterday, the first thing I noticed was the sun on my face. I welcomed it, then wondered, Do I have sunscreen? Then I asked myself if I should have used the bathroom before heading to the park. I made it to a bench and opened my book just as a bold, chittering group of sparrows swooped down from a nearby perch; I watched them jostle one another.

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Emma Sarappo

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Art Spiegelman, the artist most famous for his novel Maus, makes comix. No, that’s not a typo, as he explains in an article The Atlantic published last week: Comix have a heritage distinct from the humorous strips found in newspapers. They’re a gleeful blend of art and writing with roots in 1960s counterculture, X-rated cartoons, and the alternative press.