Alison Bechdel on reading biographies and self-help books
By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated May 6, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
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Alison Bechdel is the creator of the comic strip âDykes to Watch Out For,â and her graphic memoir âFun Homeâ was a bestseller that was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical.Elena Seibert
In her new memoir, âThe Secret to Superhuman Strength,â writer and graphic artist Alison Bechdel delves into her long-time obsession with fitness crazes, an often-comic self-examination that leads from spin classes eventually, somehow, to Eastern philosophy. The MacArthur Fellow is the creator of the comic strip âDykes to Watch Out For,â and her graphic memoir âFun Homeâ was a bestseller that was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical. She lives in Vermont with her partner.
I woke up to another shooting headline today. Something is terribly wrong. I donât dare numb out the horror of what is happening in our country, and yet, itâs so horrible that if I allow myself to dwell too much on it, Iâm paralyzed by heartbreak and fear. The reality is that people of all ages are dying every day in the most common of places. Iâve spent hours trying to understand it. How can you just walk in the door of a grocery store, a school, a hospital, and shoot to kill? I canât make sense of it.
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