The 'Marjane Satrapi' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Marjane Satrapi. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

December 21st, 2008

The 10 Best Books I read in 2008

1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving birth to a stillborn child and all that follows is heartbreaking, darkly funny, and something everyone on the planet should [...]

April 6th, 2008

Marjane Satrapi Reading in Twin Cities

Marjane Satrapi, the author and artist behind the phenomenal Persepolis, is going to be giving a talk at Century College in White Bear Lake on Thursday, April 10. I cannot even begin to express how bummed out I am that I can’t go because I have class. Damn. Someone has to go and give a [...]

March 26th, 2008

Bookclub Bitches 10: Persepolis a book I want to make love to

powered by ODEO For the March edition of Bookclub Bitches FFJ and I read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. We actually read both Persepolis and Persepolis 2. I don’t see how one could read the first one and not want to read the second one immediately. To say that I loved this graphic memoir is like [...]