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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest

10 best books like The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (Russ Kick): Blood Song, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, Thirst, The Best American Comics 2013, The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel, I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories, Trampoline: An Anthology, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge, Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes

Blood Song
AuthorEric Drooker
From American Book Award winner Eric Drooker, this is a story for the ages, beginning with the agrarian past, through the industrial present, and into the technological future.
A young woman bravely escapes a military assault on her island village, journeying across the ocean to arrive, unknowingly,...
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
AuthorHarvey Pekar
ISBN0809094827
Harvey Pekar's mother was a Zionist by way of politics. His father was a Zionist by way of faith. Whether Harvey was going to daily Hebrew classes or attending Zionist picnics, he grew up a staunch supporter of the Jewish state. But soon he found himself questioning the very beliefs and ideals of his parents.

In...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Best American Comics 2013
AuthorJeff Smith
ISBN0547995466
I'm always happy to see a new volume in this series. Whether one agrees that these are literally the "best" comics of the year or not, it's certainly at least an anthology of excellent work. Styles tend to skew more towards the arty, but if you don't like a particular piece, just skip to the next one. Some...
The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel
AuthorSean Michael Wilson
ISBN1611800129
This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating...
I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories
AuthorJohn Haskell
ISBN0312421869
A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; "The Judgement of Psycho," probes the sexual dynamic of...
Trampoline: An Anthology
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520046
Hard to write a review of a collection of stories from different authors, as there's such a difference in quality. The longer stories tended to be the weakest; I couldn't even finish Jackson's insufferable, interminable "Crowd of Bone", and "Insect Dreams" was a slog, despite a good premise and setting....
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories
AuthorRick Moody
ISBN0316706280
(view spoiler)[When I was young, I read too much too soon. This was probably one of them.

The inscription on the flap of the paperback copy of this (which I intend to hungrily peddle today to the local bookmongers before an evening spent in the kitchen of a restaurant whose name literally translates...
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
AuthorJames Tadd Adcox
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge is a short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir, poetry and prose, realism and irrealism.

Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark...
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
AuthorMark Crick
ISBN0151012830
I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was...
A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish
AuthorGeorge Saunders
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN0312863500
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered here in this volume...
Gonzo
AuthorWill Bingley
ISBN1906838119
Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Only some of which are true. Even in the 20th century crowded with celebrity, his legacy remains a brilliantly vital force.

The great American...
Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels
AuthorGeorge A. Walker
ISBN1554072700
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book."
- New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman

Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues...
Welcome to the Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the New American Rome
AuthorKen Dahl
ISBN1934620025
Welcome to the Dahl House is a collection of Ken Dahl’s slice-of-life comics from 1997-2007, most of which are really crap – and I’m a fan of lo-fi sad bastard indie comics!

Most of the short stories feature Gordon Smalls, a pathetic thirtysomething loser with no job or money or any kind...
Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel
AuthorJimenez Lai
The actual "stories" themselves are wonderful, witty, and synthesize wry social commentary with architectural theory and history.

But the preface, the commentary at the beginning of chapters, and other "text blocks" - almost ruin this book for me. It will probably turn people off to what...
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0679776249
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0872863115
"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.

From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature...
Ms. Marvel (2014-2015) #5
AuthorG. Willow Wilson
After 5 issues in, I think Ms. Marvel is off to a great start. Kamala Khan is quite relatable for teens / young adults who have immigrant parents. Judging from the storyline, I believe Kamala is a first generation immigrant. So, she's in that awkward back and forth situation with American culture and her...
Flight, Vol. 6
AuthorKazu Kibuishi
ISBN0345505905
Wonderful in the absolute sense of the word. (Full. Of. Wonder.).
This was/is my introduction into the ecclectic volumes of comics edited by Kazu Kibuishi.
Essentially short stories with astoundingly fantabulous art.

Reading this was nothing short of magic. And I can't think of...
Great Pacific Volume 1: Trashed!
AuthorJoe Harris
When fugitive oil heir Chas Worthington settles the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plants a flag, and declares it his own sovereign nation, the reality of the environmental catastrophe is only the beginning of his odyssey. From acclaimed writer Joe Harris (Ghost Projekt, Spontaneous) and...
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