![]() ![]() What was it like developing these characters? What were the original impetuses behind them? ![]() So far, the two major works of yours I read- Crimes and Cannonball-function in part as character studies of young queer woman artists who are in ways perhaps self-destructive. The book helped me work through some of my troubled feelings about fame, artmaking, and my career in the arts. Annie MokĪnnie Mok: First of all, thanks for making Cannonball, I loved it. Wroten’s new book is Cannonball from Uncivilized Books. Their protagonists are by turns funny, charming, and irritating to those around her, and according to Wroten in this interview, those varied reactions carry to readers as well. Their work has that power to me her books so far are portraits of young queer women self-destructing, and they are richly and tenderly observed. ![]() Kelsey Wroten’s debut graphic novel Crimes from Pyrite Press became a book so close to me that I brought it as one of the few books I re-read when I checked myself into a psych ward earlier this year. Features “If Anything, The Book Would Be Longer”: A Conversation With Kelsey Wroten ![]()
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