Meet Alison Bechdel - creator of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and author of Fun Home
Spent: A Comic Novel - Book Signing
Gay's the Word Pop-Up Shop
58 - 60 Marchmont Street
Saturday 21st June
Noon - 1pm - Tickets £5
We are SO EXCITED about this!!!!
Yes, that's right, to celebrate the release of Spent the incredible Alison Bechdel will be book signing at Gay's the Word's new pop-up bookshop space (10 seconds away from Gay's the Word) on Saturday 21st June. To ensure everyone has a moment with Alison places are limited to just 60 people. Tickets are £5 but if you buy books at the signing you'll get a £5 discount off your purchase!
'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written – as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' - OBSERVER
From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?
But how is she supposed to sit here writing a book when the world hangs on a thread?
In this hilariously skewering comic novel, Alison is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war.
Her first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, Death and Taxidermy. It’s a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group.
As the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy, Alison’s own envy spirals. Why couldn’t she be the writer for a wildly popular reality TV series which shows people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!
In Spent, the celebrated, bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud and passionately political work of autofiction, and once again proves that “nobody does it better” (New York Times) than the real Alison Bechdel.
‘A gathering of threads from Bechdel’s life and work, a celebration of and a rumination on where she has landed in late middle age, and how some of her fictional creations might live alongside her...this wise and playful tale has deep roots.’ - James Smart, Guardian
Venue is ground floor and has a ramp and double entry doors so is wheelchair accessible. If you want to attend this event and have any questions around accessibility of any kind, please email us at gaystheword@gmail.com