Episode 71: Mira Jacob

Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

English - June 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 70: Alicia Jo Rabins

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Rachel Zucker speaks with Mira Jacob, author and illustrator of a newly released graphic memoir GOOD TALK: A Memoir in Conversations. Zucker and Jacob speak about “the gaze of disbelief,” racism, raising sons in the age of Trump, the relationship between humor and anger, the lonely exhilaration of immersing oneself in a new medium, the challenges and pleasures of translating text into audio and the complicated work of making art about yourself, your children, family and friends.

Rachel Zucker speaks with Mira Jacob, author and illustrator of a newly released graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Zucker and Jacob speak about “the gaze of disbelief,” racism, raising sons in the age of Trump, the relationship between humor and anger, the lonely exhilaration of immersing oneself in a new medium, the challenges and pleasures of translating text into audio and the complicated work of making art about yourself, your children, family and friends.

EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 71Books by MIra Jacob

Good Talk (One World, 2019)

The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (Random House, 2015)

Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode

Bill Cheng

Dani Shapiro

Jed Rothstein

Susan Sontag’s On Photography (Picador)

Charlie Hebdo