{"id":5912,"date":"2015-06-11T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2015-06-04T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:59:16","slug":"nourishing-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/06\/11\/nourishing-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Nourishing Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Whole<\/a>Whole Grains<\/em> is a book edited by Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider that is composed entirely of quotes.\u00a0 Even the introduction is just another collection of quotes without any explanatory prose.\u00a0 The book is made up of four sections, \u201cSex, Dope and Cheap Thrills,\u201d \u201cEarth Ship,\u201d \u201cAlienation Blues,\u201d and \u201cWhite Light\u201d and the quotes come from every place imaginable.\u00a0 One page in the \u201cEarth Ship\u201d section has a quote from each Steve McQueen, Walt Whitman, Ronald Regan, the Whole Earth Catalog and a sign in a park in Barcelona.\u00a0 Although the book does include quotes from both Spiegelman and Schneider, for the most part, it is other people\u2019s words curated by them.\"Whole<\/a><\/p>\n

Art Spiegelman was deeply involved in the underground comix movement and worked with famous cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and Bill Griffith.\u00a0 He published many works including the comic anthology Raw.\u00a0 <\/em>He also wrote comics for The<\/em> New Yorker<\/em> in the late 90s and early 2000s. Both of his parents were Holocaust survivors and several of his works deal with this.\u00a0 His most critically acclaimed piece is Mous <\/em>which deals with the Holocaust and his family history.<\/em>\u00a0 Whole Grains<\/em> is dedicated to his mother after her suicide.\u00a0 <\/em>Bob Schneider is also a comic author and screenwriter who currently writes for McSweeny\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is in the Santo Doming Collection available at Widener Library.\u00a0 Other books by Spiegelman such as Co-mix: a retrospective of comics, graphics, and scraps<\/a><\/em> and Maus : a survivor\u2019s tale<\/a> <\/em>are available in Harvard\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Emma Clement, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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