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"In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father, Fredric, an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. With Kurzweils signature humanity and humor, in boundary-pushing, gorgeous handmade drawings, Artificial guides us...
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3.9 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel
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5 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art
An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New...
5. Persepolis
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4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROZ CHAST DURING THE PROGRAM
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The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.