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Impossible People

by Julia Wertz

  • Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
  • 2023
  • ISBN: 978-0762468256
  • 320 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

Celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery.

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Julia Wertz
About the Author

Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. She does regular short story comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Believer, the Best American Comics, and other publications. Her photography of abandoned places has appeared in a handful of newspapers. She is a repeated MacDowell fellow but was rejected from Yaddo. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent a decade in New York City before settling in Sonoma County, CA, with her partner Oliver (yup, the Oliver from Fart Party) and their son Felix.

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