Search Results by tag: Persepolis

15 TIFF films for the literary-minded

You're not going to get close to Brad Pitt, in town this weekend for the premiere of Moneyball, the adaptation of Michael Lewis's baseball book of the same name, but if you're attending the Toronto ... Read More »

September 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Iran election inspires Persepolis “sequel”

By Suzanne Gardner

Two Iranian exiles, known only as Sina and Payman, have remixed Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis to depict the recent weeks of political unrest in Iran following the June 12 election. Called "Persepolis 2.0," the ... Read More »

June 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi joins fight against Iranian “coup d’Ã©tat”

By Nathan Whitlock

The National Post points us to a story in ADN Kronos about Persepolis author (and director of the film version) Marjane Satrapi's efforts to expose what many believe was an enormous electoral fraud in last ... Read More »

June 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The coming year in memoir fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

We here at Quillblog remember a day “ back when we were young and having remarkable and poignant experiences we reserve the right to one day lay out in book form “ when memoirs were ... Read More »

March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

On the graphic memoir

By Scott MacDonald

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently posted an article on its website about the rise of graphic memoirs, or memoirs in comic book form. This news itself isn't so noteworthy: with numerous autobiographically inspired books like Art ... Read More »

April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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