Coco Picard
@cocolarolo.bsky.social
books + comics / often in the vicinity of art / recently The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press) she/her/hers
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hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
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Two vibrant books release today!
-One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters
-Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social
#NewBooks
-One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters
-Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social
#NewBooks
April 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Two vibrant books release today!
-One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters
-Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social
#NewBooks
-One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters
-Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social
#NewBooks
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In this comic interview Coco Picard speaks with Emily Everett about her debut novel “All That Life Can Afford,” the test prep industry as a microcosm for how the world works, and how class structure determines accessibility in the UK. buff.ly/Xe3U5a4
April 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In this comic interview Coco Picard speaks with Emily Everett about her debut novel “All That Life Can Afford,” the test prep industry as a microcosm for how the world works, and how class structure determines accessibility in the UK. buff.ly/Xe3U5a4
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In this comic interview Coco Picard (@cocolarolo.bsky.social) speaks with Ibtisam Azem about her novel "The Book of Disappearance," and what it means to write against disappearance. buff.ly/iS67LXq
“The Book of Disappearance” Explores a Fictional World Where Palestinians Vanish - Electric Literature
Ibtisam Azem discusses the Nakba, colonialism, and the role of literature in resisting erasure
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March 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In this comic interview Coco Picard (@cocolarolo.bsky.social) speaks with Ibtisam Azem about her novel "The Book of Disappearance," and what it means to write against disappearance. buff.ly/iS67LXq
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And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end
Save the Chicago Reader - Salem Collo-Julin's Fundraiser on Donorbox
Imagine a teenager in a study carrel at a Chicago Public Library branch. It’s the late end of the 1980s, and a stack of newspapers is on a table nearby. Standing up to stretch after an hour of pretend...
donorbox.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end
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Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/
Failing up - Chicago Reader
True Failure, the latest novel from Alex Higley, follows the deceptions of characters failing upward in their bid for the American dream.
chicagoreader.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/
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New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast
In this special visual interview created by Coco Picard, author Moshe Zvi Marvit discusses his debut novel, "Nothing Vast" (Acre Books)
A Comic by Coco Picard: Moshe Zvi Marvit Discusses His Debut Novel “Nothing Vast” - Chicago Review of Books
A discussion with Moshe Zvi Marvit, author of "Nothing Vast"; in comic form.
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November 27, 2024 at 10:30 PM
New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast
Libraries as radical sites of private/anti-AI research
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Libraries as radical sites of private/anti-AI research
Yesterdays note to self
February 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Yesterdays note to self
against artificial intelligentsia
January 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
against artificial intelligentsia
Late night comics brought me back to a playlist I made for a friend open.spotify.com/playlist/32h...
Music for Sarah
open.spotify.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Late night comics brought me back to a playlist I made for a friend open.spotify.com/playlist/32h...
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1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
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As Trump takes office, Chicago Public Schools tries to reassure parents it will keep immigrant & LGBTQ students safe. www.cps.edu/services-and...
New Administration Guidance
View important information regarding the potential impact of the incoming presidential administration’s voiced policy changes on CPS school communities. The content on this page will continue to evolv...
www.cps.edu
January 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As Trump takes office, Chicago Public Schools tries to reassure parents it will keep immigrant & LGBTQ students safe. www.cps.edu/services-and...
Bots paint pastoral kinkaid knock offs to prove they aren’t bots
January 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Bots paint pastoral kinkaid knock offs to prove they aren’t bots
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Support the LA Artists relief fund www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
Donate to Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over, organized by Grief and Hope
Grief… and hope. We are a group of volunteers—artists, gallery employees,… Grief and Hope needs your support for Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over
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January 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Support the LA Artists relief fund www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
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I have this book and can confirm both weird and wonderful.
This book published by The Museum of Jurassic Technology is so weird and wonderful. It’s a collection of letters written to the astronomers of Mount Wilson Observatory from 1915 to 1935
www.mjt.org/exhibits/let...
www.mjt.org/exhibits/let...
January 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I have this book and can confirm both weird and wonderful.
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"Message to the performers: Do not try to carry this play forward. Let it creep slowly over the stage with no help, with no end in view."
- Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant
- Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant
January 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"Message to the performers: Do not try to carry this play forward. Let it creep slowly over the stage with no help, with no end in view."
- Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant
- Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant
If NYE fashion says anything about 2025, dog sweaters are IN.
December 31, 2024 at 8:08 PM
If NYE fashion says anything about 2025, dog sweaters are IN.
Preschool breakout group
December 16, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Preschool breakout group
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Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.
December 16, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.
Sound of Music remake by Sofia Coppola
December 15, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Sound of Music remake by Sofia Coppola
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The PR dept for the brussels sprouts industry goes wild!
Brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year, and may be sexier too
Brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year, and may be sexier too
Farmers say good growing conditions will result in a bumper crop, with the average sprout 30mm in diameter
Farmers are forecasting that brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year.
Good growing conditions, the introduction of new varieties, and a dose…
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The PR dept for the brussels sprouts industry goes wild!
Colors sing in the rain.
December 14, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Colors sing in the rain.