Graphic book review: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Sketchbook Coloring Book
I combed through a dozen of my sketchbooks, scanned my drawings, and created a coloring book. You can see Harriet in action, coloring the pages enthusiastically.
A new graphic book review in Refuze Review, on Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
I wrote a graphic book review on Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, one of my favorite books that I have read in the past few years, and it has now been published in Refuze Review. Check it out here, and below:
Graphic review, “Stray City” by Chelsea Johnson, for Manzanita Papers
I wrote this graphic review of Stray City, by Chelsea Johnson, for the clever literary subscription service Manzanita Papers.
Resurrecting Walter Benjamin’s Archival Spirit: An Interview with the Michigan Quarterly Review
How delightful! The writer and editor Cammie Finch recently interviewed me about my recent book for the Michigan Quarterly Review. You can find and read the interview, titled “Resurrecting Walter Benjamin’s Archival Spirit”, via the link below.
HERE’S THE INTERVIEW.
Also, follow Cammie Finch, she’s a bright beam of intelligent light.
Hybrid poetry response, for Green Mountain Review
My Review of Paige Ackerson-Kiely’s collection of poems, “Dolefully, A Rampart Stands,” has now been published on the Green Mountain Review website:
Green Mountain Review
Literary Hub: “Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind”
I’m so thrilled to see an excerpt of my book in LitHub. Take a read/glimpse: LitHub
“On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer’s Marginalia”
The International Walter Benjamin Society
The International Walter Benjamin Society has just posted a little note about my book in their publications selection. I’m honored!
Solstice Celebrations of New Books
Now that I have finally turned in my final grades for the three creative writing courses that I teach here in Vermont, I’m finally reaching my head above the chaos for a breath of fresh air, and I went back to re-read the marketing and publicity paperwork for MIT Press regarding my upcoming book. There, I found a very kind and thrilling description of my book among the Editor’s Picks for 2019 collection, written by the acquisitions editor who helped coach me through this process. Here is her write-up,
“Most of us are familiar with Walter Benjamin, but in revisiting him closely while doing research for this book, I was astonished to realize how persistent his influence is—and, in fact, growing.
Frances Cannon’s passion for Benjamin is infectious. Her graphic translations charm and captivate. In the same way that Benjamin’s writing is likened to a meandering stroll, Cannon’s pen wanders, strays, digresses. She illuminates Benjamin the flâneur—allowing us, along with her, to become flâneurs ourselves, traveling through his mind.
This is a fun read, and unpredictable in the best sense of the word. As one of the endorsers notes: “we need to come up with new names for something this wonderful and brand new in the world.”
A BOOK for FRANCES—An old project, retrieved from the archives
I recently found this handmade book that I gave to my father as a gift several years ago (given my terrible memory, it could have been three years ago, or five… who knows). He named me after the badger in Russel Hoban’s “Frances” series, most notably: Bread and Jam for Frances, so I decided to write and illustrate my own version as a tribute to my Dad.
FRANKY FRANCES CANNON 