Yale Library Book Talk: Spent by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel, award-winning cartoonist and graphic memoirist and Professor in the Practice, English and Film & Media Studies, will speak about her new comic novel “Spent.”

In this hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege?

Alison Bechdel is a prolific cartoonist known for the comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” as well as the celebrated graphic novels “Fun Home,” “Are You My Mother?” and “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”

Photo of Alison Bechdel by Chase Elliott Clark.