Babylon Rolling Written by Amanda Boyden From the acclaimed author of Pretty Little Dirty ("a first novel of complex truth and beauty"--San Francisco Chronicle), comes a glittering... Read More Bat-Manga! Written by Chip Kidd The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover... Read More Breakdowns Written by Art Spiegelman The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him! This book opens with Portrait of the... Read More The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday Written by Alexander McCall Smith In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has... Read More Finding Beauty in a Broken World Written by Terry Tempest Williams In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding... Read More I Live Here Written by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya... Read More I See You Everywhere Written by Julia Glass From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together... Read More The Mural at the Waverly Inn Written by Edward Sorel The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair... Read More My Brain is Hanging Upside Down Written by David Heatley One of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection—part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography... Read More Breakdowns Written by Art Speigelman The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him! This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective." Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir. Meet Art Spiegelman Order your copy online