Oh my god, I love Art Speigelman. The Memphis Library only had his post-Sept. 11th work – I’d love to get my hands on Maus, if only for a week.

I am going to read Art Speigelman’s Maus I and II. He won an award for his graphic novel about the Holocaust. There’s many genocides in history that should be remembered on Holocaust Remembrance Day in addition to the Holocaust. Some acts of genocide should include the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian Genocide, the East Timor Genocide, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Nanjing Massacre, and many others that I haven’t listed.

James Young’s “Writing and Re-Writing the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation” and “The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning” are both profound examinations of the ethics of representation with profound connections to feminist analysis.

Only kind of on-thread, but for graphic novel lovers (or people like me who were won over to them by Speigelman), Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” – the memoir of an Iranian girl, is as powerful an invitation into cultural, personal, global experience as “MAUS” was – haven’t yet read the second in the series, but the first is damned instructive about Iran and historic American relationship to the country, among other things.

He also walks his talk for all the genocide victims everywhere, which makes him one damn fine human.

Another really good thing to read about the Holocaust is Art Speigelman’s comic-book-style Maus series, which really brought home to me “the banality of evil” aspect.

That’s it.

It was only a semester class, and I missed the last half of that semester.

My homebound teacher was fascinated by the textbook, and so was I.

I read all of it, and Theriomorph, I’m writing down those titles!

(Got Night at a garage sale with a paperback book on world religions for a dollar last fall.)

The world sucks.

Since people wouldn’t talk about the Armenian Genocide (back in the ’90s, some students petitioned a college professor of Turkish studies to add the genocide and were turned down, according to, sigh my immaturity, the comic book, The Big Book of Bad.), why should they care about some Jews?

And we did care, but it’s still going on!

This and the shooting in Virgina – what is *wrong* with people?

Oh, and today’s a good day – why are your taxes due tomorrow? Because today’s Emancipation Day! And, oh, Holocaust Remembrance Day. (We have *got* to work on our scheduling.)