Congrats to Alexi Z.
W.W. Norton will publish my friend Alexi Zentner’s first novel in 2011. Alexi co-won the 2008 Narrative Prize.
W.W. Norton will publish my friend Alexi Zentner’s first novel in 2011. Alexi co-won the 2008 Narrative Prize.
R. Crumb’s faithful rendering of Genesis highlights the book’s inconsistencies, including the conflicting accounts of the creation of humanity. Was Eve formed as a subservient “helper,” from Adam’s rib, or did the Lord make man and woman at the same time, with a let-there-be-light-type command? The simultaneous creation story is the older one, actually, but fundamentalists read them together, giving . . .
“I had enough information to do a far better hatchet job on me than anybody else could!” An interview with Alasdair Gray.
R. Crumb’s Genesis, like the original, includes sex and violence — and Lot’s incest. Some Christians are angry. (Via.)