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Describe your latest book.
I have written a book called
Many Love, which is very difficult for me to describe. You are supposed to have an elevator pitch for the book you have written, but I have struggled greatly with such a pitch. Here are the different ways I’ve described it to different people:
Modern-looking woman: “It’s an illustrated memoir about polyamory.”
Cool, comics-loving guy whom I might want to someday date: “Yeah, it’s mostly a comic. It’s like, an autobiographical comic? But there are words in there, too, that aren’t part of the comic; it's like
Phoebe Gloeckner’s book, but different.”
My grandmother: “It’s a sort of sociological book with my own stories and it’s vaguely about the evolution of human love. You shouldn’t read it, you would find it boring."...