“Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism”… Happy to share the recording Cyrus did of my Janus Prize Lecture and Ceremony at the Chautauqua Institution!
It includes some snapshots at the end, highlighting how the Institution honors and celebrates its artists.
The lecture is a trip down wormholes, genre-bending, comic book realism, Nuyorican & Puerto Rican history, gentrification, erasure, fangirl astrophysics, family history… somehow we emerge on the other side!
I reference many works in this by author, I’ll just list two here. Here are links to the academic paper by Daniel Bautista introducing Comic Book Realism. https://bit.ly/3ds4iQE
Here is a link to the talk that includes Dr. Ahmed Almheiri ‘s lecture “How Spacetime Wormholes Resolve the Information Paradox”. This was the astrophysics thread to the lecture that wove through the fabric of the novel, short story Jean, life and love the lecture embodied. Luckily no astrophysics were in the room to ask me about it. But people did leave with wormhole vertigo. https://www.ias.edu/video/spacetime-quantum-entanglement-and-black-holes
And of course, find “Jean” in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers” published by Mad Creek Books (Ohio State University Press), among other wonderful works. This lecture is also a good “dig deeper” to my zine “Maria” recently glowingly reviewed by Broken Pencil Magazine in their summer 2022 issue (what timing!).
Head spinning but find this fascinatingly useful and enriching? Don’t fret, because a print of the lecture is coming your way 2023 via Janus Point Press that includes footnotes, as well as digital print.
#Watchoutforwormholes #Jean
