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Cover reveal for Before Nightfall
Just saw they’ve posted a cover for Silvia Vecchini’s verse novel, <i>Before Nightfall</i>, which I recently translated from Italian for the NYRB Kids imprint. It looks good! Here’s a bit about the book from NYRB’s website: Before Nightfall <i>is a book about trust, imagination, empathy, and language, narrated through the poems Emma types and through prose […] Read more ...
Laila Lalami reviews Social Fiction in The Nation
I’m so happy to see this terrific, thoughtful review of Montellier’s book by Lalami, who provides excellent context and analysis throughout. Here’s a snippet: The future that the French artist Chantal Montellier imagined in the 1970s and ’80s, when her dystopian comics ran in the magazine Métal Hurlant, is likewise ominous. Montellier envisioned a society […] Read more ...
Joe McCulloch weighs in on SF at TCJ
Joe McCulloch, the editor of The Comics Journal and a long-time champion of Chantal Montellier’s work, has published an extremely smart piece about her that I urge everyone to read. Here’s a taste: For these three albums, all of them SF, the idea is to observe the broken pieces of the state of the future, […] Read more ...
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