{"id":1804,"date":"2013-03-07T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2013-06-18T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:39:42","slug":"chester-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/chester-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Brown Is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chester<\/p>\n

The great graphic novelist, Chester Brown<\/a>, was kind enough to write a blurb for my book, You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

We think we understand our society’s taboos, I certainly thought I did. But reading Robert Arthur’s fascinating, powerful book showed me how little I knew about the subject. You Will Die<\/em> challenged me in the way that really good books do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also gave me a copy of his celebrated biography of the Canadian revolutionary, Louis Riel<\/a>, with a signed drawing on its title page (pictured above). As the kids used to say back in the 1940s, it blew my wig.<\/p>\n

Brown’s latest best-selling graphic novel, Paying For It<\/a> (2011), details his life as a patron of sex workers. His intimate description of the practice is a welcome rejoinder to the media’s portrayal of all johns as callous misogynists.<\/p>\n

\"Chester<\/a><\/p>\n

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The great graphic novelist, Chester Brown, was kind enough to write a blurb for my book, You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos: We think we understand our society’s taboos, I certainly thought I did. But reading Robert Arthur’s fascinating, powerful book showed me how little I knew about the subject. You Will Die […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,382],"tags":[486,487,489,485,490,408,488,28,256],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prostitution","category-you-will-die","tag-blurb","tag-brilliant","tag-cartoonist","tag-chester-brown","tag-graphic-novels","tag-libertarian","tag-robert-crumb","tag-sex-work","tag-you-will-die-the-burden-of-modern-taboos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}