Bookends with Mattea Roach

Alison Bechdel on making money and seeing Fun Home in a new light


Listen Later

Nearly 20 years after her breakout memoir, Fun Home, cartoonist Alison Bechdel is still unearthing new truths about her life in that time. The memoir and its Broadway adaptation changed Alison’s life and brought a degree of success she was unaccustomed to. She explores these themes in her latest work, a comic novel called Spent. It’s about a cartoonist's complicated relationship with money and capitalism, and the struggle to stay true to her values. Alison tells Mattea about creating a fictionalized version of herself ... and shares surprising revelations about her parents, which have given her new insight into her own life story.


If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes:

  • Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers' burning questions
  • Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Bookends with Mattea RoachBy CBC

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

220 ratings


More shows like Bookends with Mattea Roach

View all
The Book Review by The New York Times

The Book Review

3,857 Listeners

Ideas by CBC

Ideas

396 Listeners

Quirks and Quarks by CBC

Quirks and Quarks

375 Listeners

The Current by CBC

The Current

227 Listeners

The Sunday Magazine by CBC

The Sunday Magazine

66 Listeners

The House by CBC

The House

80 Listeners

Q with Tom Power by CBC

Q with Tom Power

271 Listeners

White Coat, Black Art by CBC

White Coat, Black Art

107 Listeners

The Next Chapter by CBC

The Next Chapter

32 Listeners

Canada Reads by CBC

Canada Reads

12 Listeners

Day 6 by CBC

Day 6

49 Listeners

At Issue by CBC

At Issue

115 Listeners

Front Burner by CBC

Front Burner

420 Listeners

PlayME by CBC

PlayME

35 Listeners

Cost of Living by CBC

Cost of Living

40 Listeners

The Dose by CBC

The Dose

92 Listeners

This is not a Drake podcast by CBC

This is not a Drake podcast

36 Listeners

Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud by CBC

Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

99 Listeners

Buffy by CBC

Buffy

279 Listeners