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A testament to best-selling novelist Amy Tan’s obsession with birds, The Backyard Bird Chronicles spotlights hundreds of excerpts of illustrations and prose from Tan’s observations over the years.
Artist Billy Renkl recounts his painstaking process for constructing the mixed-media collages that accompany the essays in his sister Margaret Renkl’s new book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year.
The illustrator of the graphic novel My Brilliant Friend, Mara Cerri, discusses her artistic practice, the challenges of rendering an esteemed novel in images, and her experience working with one of world’s most elusive authors.
“Every day without fail. Small marks with a pencil.” —Edward Carey, author of The Swallowed Man
Green Brain Comics, along with the Emerging Writers Network, hosts Brain Candy, a free, curated live program of prose, music, poetry, and visual art. Brain Candy readings occur every third Monday of the month with new monthly guests.
The shop also hosts book club discussions, comic book signings and release parties, and movie screenings.
Colorful illustrations accompany notes, quotes, and literary trivia about books to read and bookstores to visit.
