Art Spiegelman on Resistance, Memory, and Speaking Up

Borrowed by Brooklyn Public Library

Sep 30, 202519:53Arts

Art Spiegelman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the graphic novel Maus, the story of his parents’ experience during the Holocaust. We got to sit down with Spiegelman at Brooklyn Public Library’s recording studio e...

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