![]() And Knisley illustrates her essays in every sense. ![]() Like Joan Didion and Roxane Gay, Knisley often works towards a thesis and richly illustrates it with examples from her own life. While it’s still accurate to describe Knisley as a memoirist, I now think that a different label makes much more sense, especially with Kid Gloves and her previous book, Something New: Tales From a Makeshift Bride. But here’s the thing - I was wrong about her. Six books by age 34 is no small accomplishment. She attended both the School of the Art Institute and The Center for Cartoon Studies. Knisley is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author. "Yes, I make work about food and art & travel BUT THERE IS MEANING IN IT if to no one else but me."Īnd clearly others have found meaning in her work as well. I am aware of that," she writes in 2014’s An Age of License. Knisley has long acknowledged her privilege. Her five autobiographical graphic novels recall the mostly charmed twenties of a middle class American white woman. ![]() ![]() Until giving Kid Gloves a serious read, I thought of Knisley solely as a memoirist. Before I get into reviewing Lucy Knisley’s new book, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, I need to own up to something. ![]()
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