Drawing Blood, Molly Crabapple
Drawing Blood, Molly Crabapple
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Drawing Blood

Author: Molly Crabapple

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/01/2015


Synopsis

From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.

Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art, she posed nude for sketch artists and sketchy photographers, danced burlesque, and modeled for the world famous Suicide Girls. Frustrated with the academy and the conventional art world, she eventually landed a post as house artist at Simon Hammerstein's legendary nightclub The Box, the epicenter of decadent Manhattan nightlife before the financial crisis of 2008. Then, after the crash, a wave of protest movements—from student demonstrations in London to Occupy Wall Street in her own backyard—led Molly to turn her talents to a new form of witness journalism, reporting from places such as Guantanamo, Syria, Rikers Island, and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, she has swiftly become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage.


About Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer living in New York City. She is a contributing editor for Vice, and she has written for publications including the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gea on January 01, 2016

Artist and writer Molly Crabapple’s latest book is a beautiful bloody confessional of her young life thus far. Drawing Blood, the hard cover, is a physically scrumptious specimen full of exquisitely detailed art and saturated splashes of color. But what surprised me even more, considering she just “......more

Goodreads review by Elise on December 13, 2015

I knew this would be a staff pick for me well before page 100. This is one of those books that caught my attention fast and hard. The cover caught my attention as I shelved it. I see hundreds of books everyday, but this one just begged to be read. On the clock, there really isn't time to peruse the......more

Goodreads review by Murtaza on January 22, 2016

I really enjoyed this book, by someone who is both a great writer and artist, and who managed to create a book that is both beautifully written and beautifully illustrated by their own hand. Its not easy to write a memoir when you're still young, but in this case there was enough material to tell a......more

Goodreads review by Kendra on March 28, 2016

I stumbled into this book by accident when browsing my local library's E-reader selection. First off, I 100% do not recommend using an E-reader for this book. It does not do justice to the illustrations and art that are a significant part of the narrative of this autobiography as Molly is an artist.......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on December 27, 2015

Molly Crabapple is a badass who has lived a lot of life. I picked up this book because I know her essays, which are sharp and imaginative, though Drawing Blood focuses more on her path as a visual artist. The most striking parts of this memoir are about what it means to be a woman: being alone in yo......more