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Chris Ware’s graphic novel Building Stories is a compilation of narratives about the inhabitants of a Chicago apartment building. Without a semblance of beginning or end, Ware’s stories illustrate bits of life that are heavy with allusions to the nature of American society and the human condition. Many credit Ware with ushering the graphic medium into the realm of “serious literature,” and few others have been as quick to pick up on this literary talent as Zadie Smith, who included Ware in her anthology of short stories, The Book of Other People.
Bearings. NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
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Submitted by Benoit on December 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM.
The talk is fascinating but it is such a pity we cannot get the images which support it. It is sometimes very hard to understand clearly what is going on without seeing the pictures they are talking about.
Would it be possible to make the slides available? Or a video maybe?
Thank you for your interest
Submitted by Mariel Fiedler on December 26, 2012 at 12:31 PM.
Thank you for your interest in this program. Chris Ware and Zadie Smith have requested that the video and slides not be uploaded because of the personal nature of the content. We hope that you'll join us at future events to make sure you don't miss out on the action. Again, apologies about this and we hope to see you soon.