Satrapi’s Persepolis.
On February 26, cartoonists Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi were interviewed on stage in New York by Francoise Mouly. You can go listen to this very interesting hour-long conversation here. Very highly recommended.
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[...] Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware recently gave a talk, moderated by Francoise Mouly, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts as part of the the three-day festival of New French Writing.WYNC has a podcast of the conversation up on their Web site. (via: Jeet Heer) [...]
[...] The Weekly Standard has published a cover piece by Gershom Gorenberg on that ancient and somewhat dubious question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, that portrays Palestinians as human beings. A rapid scan produces this sentence: That said, absolute nonviolence is a terribly unfair standard to demand of those on the other side–the weaker side–of a conflict, even if it has a potential of being politically effective.Gershom Gorenberg is center-left. Where does this leave Bill Kristol and David Frum and Richard Perle? Note that AEI, in the same building as the Weekly Standard, lately purged a few neocons… Thanks to Jeet Heer for tip. [...]