Not Us: After Watchmen – a List from GQ magazine

GQ recently published a list called “The 20 Graphic Novels You Should Read (After Watchmen),” and I have to say, this is one of the best examples of this sort of list I’ve seen come down the pike in quite a while.  Its an incredibly diverse selection of titles, covering a wide range of genres, [...]

Recommended: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Recommended by Bill Doughty, Circulation Assistant at the Krupp Library
So there’s a good chance you saw the recent movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ famed graphic novel Watchmen.  But if you haven’t read the book, you owe it to yourself to check it out.  And if you have read it before, you [...]

Recommended: “It’s Superman! : A Novel” by Tom DeHaven

(Recommended by Krupp Library Circulation Assistant Bill Doughty)
Lots of people have written prose novels featuring comic book / comic strip characters over the years, and more often than not, the end results fall into one of two categories.  You either end up with a fairly traditional sort of comic story, with extra exposition subbing in [...]

Recommended: “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann

(Recommended by Phil Johnson, MBA/MSIS 2008)
Here is a recommendation for you from a recent alumnus.
Title:  “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”
Author:  Mann, Charles C.
Publisher:  Vintage
ISBN:  1-4000-3205-9
Don’t be daunted by the off-putting title.  Although it sounds like a heady post-modern celebration of Columbus bashing, it is anything but (well, there may be a little [...]

Recommended: “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld

(Recommended by Kaitlin Sidorsky, Class of 2011)
As an avid reader and a lover of politics, Curtis Sittenfeld’s new book American Wife appealed to two different sides of my nature. Although a work of fiction, it lends a very humane quality to not only the life of the President, but his family members who are equally [...]