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    Drawing Blood
    Drawing Blood
    Drawing Blood
    Audiobook10 hours

    Drawing Blood

    Written by Molly Crabapple

    Narrated by Jorjeana Marie

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    From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.

    Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art, she posed nude for sketch artists and sketchy photographers, danced burlesque, and modeled for the world famous Suicide Girls. Frustrated with the academy and the conventional art world, she eventually landed a post as house artist at Simon Hammerstein's legendary nightclub The Box, the epicenter of decadent Manhattan nightlife before the financial crisis of 2008. Then, after the crash, a wave of protest movements-from student demonstrations in London to Occupy Wall Street in her own backyard-led Molly to turn her talents to a new form of witness journalism, reporting from places such as Guantanamo, Syria, Rikers Island, and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, she has swiftly become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781494588748

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      I was reading this in ARC form and then put on hold until I could have the finished copy with the color illustrations—that really made so much of a difference, and I'm glad I did. It was a lot of fun, and it puts to rest the idea that someone so young couldn't possibly have a memoir in them—Crabapple's artistic journey, and her process of radicalization, are really interesting and she writes them out well. It's good to follow someone else's journey when they actually go places, either physically or interiorly—it becomes a travelogue in the best sense of the word. Plus the art is great to see, and has been used really nicely within the text. Good job, and I'm looking forward to the next installment in another 20 years or so.