Writers-at-Work Reading
Tuesday, April 8, 4:10pm
Phillips Hall (Building 06), Room 124 

New Yorker cartoonist and graphic memoirist Amy Kurzweil will read from her book Artificial: A Love Story, which recounts her experience helping her father—renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil—as he attempts to build an AI chatbot from the writings of his deceased father Fred— an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. Artificial was named a best book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus, and won the Living Now Book Award. Amy was also invited to present her book as a TED Talk in 2024.

 

Graphic Memoir Student Workshop
Wednesday, April 9, 4:10-6pm
Engineering West (Building 21), Room 206

Are you interested in graphic novels? Have you ever thought about how you might tell your own story? Join us for a workshop in graphic memoir with Amy Kurzweil—New Yorker cartoonist and graphic memoirist. In this workshop, students will learn visual storytelling techniques like sequencing and iconography while exploring how to develop compelling stories from their own lives. No drawing experience or materials needed! Space is limited so please sign-up here.

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award-winning graphic memoirs: Artificial: A Love Story and Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir. Her four-part series for The Believer magazine, “Technofeelia,” was nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Amy has received fellowships from The American Academy in Berlin and Black Mountain Institute, and has done residencies at Macdowell, Yaddo, and Djerassi. Her work has been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, Wired and many other places. She has taught writing and cartooning widely for over a decade.