Episode 71: Mira Jacob

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Rachel Zucker speaks with Mira Jacob, author and illustrator of a newly released graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Zucker and Jacob speak about “the gaze of disbelief,” racism, raising sons in the age of Trump, the relationship between humor and anger, the lonely exhilaration of immersing oneself in a new medium, the challenges and pleasures of translating text into audio and the complicated work of making art about yourself, your children, family and friends.

Books by MIra Jacob

• Good Talk (One World, 2019)

• The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (Random House, 2015)

Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode

• Bill Cheng

• Dani Shapiro

• Jed Rothstein

• Susan Sontag’s On Photography (Picador)

• Charlie Hebdo

Other Relevant Links

• TastyTuts