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  • The Best American Comics 2017

    Edited by Bill Kartalopoulos, Ben Katchor ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "Every last page is worth a look." — BustleBen Katchor, "the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip" ( New York Times Book Review), selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2017 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hotel and Farm

    by Ben Katchor ...
    Series series Pantheon Graphic Library
    From award-winning cartoonist and author of The Dairy Restaurant, Real Estate Photographer, and The Jew of New York: a new collection of graphic narratives preserved in Ben Katchor’s timeless illustrations.Late one night, in an Echoic City basement cafeteria, a group of story-addicts linger after dinner to share 140 tales that examine the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of hotel culture and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Dairy Restaurant

    by Ben Katchor ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 6 min

    Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat—a history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. He examines the biblical milk-and-meat taboo, the first vegetarian practices, and the invention of the restaurant. Katchor illuminates the historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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  • The Work of Art

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    by Adam Moss ...
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  • The Book Bible

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    by Susan Shapiro ...
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  • How About Never—Is Never Good for You?

    My Life in Cartoons

    by Bob Mankoff ...
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    by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser ...
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    Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature

    Edited by Meredith Maran ...
    In the voices of twenty landmark memoirists—including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy—a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike.For readers of Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir and Judith Barrington’s Writing the Memoir, this follow-up to editor Meredith Maran’s acclaimed writers ... Read more

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  • American Comics

    A History

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