In the latest edition of Book Club, sad13 chats with Mike_Eagle about the graphic novelists he can’t put down, and the guidebook that brought him to the art of hip hop
It’s no surprise given his sprawling influences, but Eagle’s book recommendations are varied in genre and tone—from Chuck Klosterman’s pop culture essays to Colson Whitehead’s historically-informed fiction, withthe next novel on his to-read list. Right now, his chief enthusiasm is comics, which he re-ups regularly on his iPad, and about which he’s considering starting a book club of his own. So comics are where we start.
, which Mark Millar did. The stuff he wrote as the Ultimate universe ended up being a lot of the source material they used to make the MCU movies. So I’m actually going back and reading all that stuff to see how they set it all up. I’m reading a lot of indie stuff, too. And The Infinite Horizon was a great graphic novel I read recently by this guy Gerry Duggan.This writer [William] Upski [Wimsatt] is a Chicago hip hop head turned writer.
There are a few writers I’ve seen you mention repeatedly throughout your career, and I’m curious about what their work means to you. Let’s start with James Baldwin. James Baldwin has a deeply intellectual, emotional, and analytical perspective on the Black experience, from someone who was in it and out of it at the same time. He was living the experience of a Black man in America, but he was also a gay Black man in America, and an intellectual Black man in America, who found ways to put words to these emotionally scarring experiences he had. His ability to put those things into words always resonated with me.
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