Books by Harvey Pekar
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review 1: This is a real treat to read after my first 4 months here in Cleveland. Who knew Cleveland was on of the best cities in the country before it took a nosedive over the last 60-70 years? He spends the first 1/3 of the book relaying Cleveland's history. He illuminates some reasons w...
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review 1: Harvey Pekar puts his opinion on Israel out there along with a lot of historical background. The drawing is beautiful, and the discussion is fair. Harvey doesn't meet any Arabs or Palestinians or Muslims. He's just mulled this over throughout his life, explains his logic, and ask...
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review 1: As I haven’t finished a novel in a while, I’ve been barring myself from reading comics until I complete Conrad’s The Secret Agent. Perhaps I didn’t pick the right book off my shelf, but the result has been that I’ve barely read anything in the past few weeks. Today I defied my ...
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review 1: This is a really enjoyable graphic history of the beat literary movement. Its a compilation of topics organized mostly around individual beat poets and writers. The most attention is given to Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs who naturally figure into chapters concerning other arti...