Axton Reading
When |
Feb 27, 2025
from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM |
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Where | The Susan and William Yarmuth Jewish Studies Reading Room, Ekstrom Library (3rd Floor) |
Contact Name | kristi.maxwell@louisville.edu |
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Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award-winning graphic memoirs. Artificial: A Love Story, which documents her father's quest to preserve the identity of his father through AI, was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus and won the Living Now Book Award. Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir, from 2016, tells the story of three generations of Jewish women in Amy's family. Amy was the recipient of a 2021 Berlin Prize with The American Academy in Berlin and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship, and she has done residencies at Macdowell and Yaddo. Her series with The Believer Magazine, "Technofeelia," has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz award. Her work has also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, Wired and many other places. She has taught writing and cartooning widely for over a decade.