[Comicsstudiessociety] Feb 21: Bill Hayes & Alison Bechdel in Conversation With Bill Goldstein

[Mike Rhode]

[image: Sweat]
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*Bill Hayes & Alison Bechdel in Conversation With Bill Goldstein*
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*Monday, February 21 @ 5pm (PT)*
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*Buy the Book (Hayes)*
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*Buy the Book (Bechdel)*
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>From *Insomniac City*
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author Bill Hayes, “who can tackle just about any subject… and make you
glad he did” (*San Francisco Chronicle*), comes *Sweat* (Bloomsbury), a
cultural, scientific, and personal history of exercise. Exercise is our
modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to
spin classes to hot yoga to prove it. Exercise — a form of physical
activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics — was an ancient
obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it’s been largely
overlooked. In *Sweat*, Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes,
boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of
different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time,
dissecting the dynamics of human movement. Hayes ties his own personal
experience — and ours — to the cultural and scientific history of exercise,
from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand
its place in our lives in the twenty-first century. In *The Secret to
Superhuman Strength* (Mariner), comics and cultural superstar Alison
Bechdel, author of *Fun Home*
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delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to
adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack
LaLanne in the ‘60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the
existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their
athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an
ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other
gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self
appears to be the thing in her way. This gifted artist and
not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret
to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less
clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important
interdependence with others. Hayes and Bechdel will be joined in
conversation by Bill Goldstein, book reviewer and author interviewer for
NBC's "Weekend Today in New York" and founding editor of the books site of *The
New York Time*s on the Web.
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