Kevin Haworth, 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, is author of four books: the novel The Discontinuity of Small Things-winner of the Samuel Goldberg Foundation Prize and first runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History; the limited-edition chapbook Far Out All My Life; and a collection of essays about writing, Lit from Within: Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing, coedited with Dinty W. Moore and named an American Library Association Outstanding Title. Haworth's work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Michigan Quarterly Review, and World Literature Today. He lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Kevin Haworth does a masterful job of highlighting Rutu Modan's role in strengthening a comics presence in Israel, providing synopses of her stories and explanations of her work philosophy and aesthetics while interspersing material on the history of Israeli comics and children's books, the Israeli-Palestine conflicts, and more. The result is a vault of information, carefully and comprehensively researched, analytically and contextually studied, and absorbingly and succinctly written.--John A. Lent, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Comic Art Haworth's book truly meets all the requirements needed to complete a model monograph on a comics artist. This in-depth study of prominent artist Rutu Modan presents a rigorous reconstruction of the Israeli comics scene from the 1990s to the 2010s, raising relevant questions, such as the evolution of comics' materiality and formats. This accurate inquiry considers Modan and her work as a case study in the rise of international attention around a marginal production, Israeli comics.--Carlotta Vacchelli "International Journal of Comic Art, Fall/Winter 2019"