About this episode
Molly Crabapple discusses her work as an artist and writer, including her notable books and journalism.
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer. She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun , an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book. Her memoir, Drawing Blood , received global praise and attention. Her animated films have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Molly’s reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books , The Paris Review , Vanity Fair , The Guardian , The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She was the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2019, a New America fellow in 2020, and the winner of the Bernhardt Labor Journalism Award in 2022. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Molly's third book, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, will be released by One World/Random House in April 2026. Please PRE-ORDER if you'd like to support her work and artistry! Molly website Leah website
People in this episode
Host: Leah Kim
Guest: Molly Crabapple
Topics covered
- art
- writing
- journalism
- memoir
- cultural commentary
Keywords
- Molly Crabapple
- Brothers of the Gun
- Drawing Blood
- journalism
- memoir
- art
- New York Times
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New America, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Books & works: Brothers of the Gun, Drawing Blood, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
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