MINOR AT HEART
Pierre on Plath
Cartoonist Summer Pierre reviews for the New Yorker's site two collections of letters from poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.
Tapes of everything
Discovery grounds the black and white debut graphic memoir from cartoonist Summer Pierre and has the artist examining music's role in pivotal life moments that unfurled during her 20s and earlier.
A great big space
Summer Pierre's comics partner well with her textured realist drawings in the September 2017 installment of Paper Pencil Life.
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Send him an email.