Roz Chast, Author . Bloomsbury $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-58234-377-8
Chances are, even if you don't recognize the name, you've seen Chast's work, which appears regularly in the New Yorker
, Scientific American
and Redbook
, among other places. Her wit, humor and style are distinctive and sharp, poking...
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Roz Chast, S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8474-0
Marco, a revved-up red parrot who behaves like a boy, cannot pause for sleep. At bedtime, he is preoccupied with everything he could be doing instead. Marco envisions discovering new fish (like the "cube-headed la-di-dah"), painting underwater ("Natu
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Roz Chast. Bloomsbury, $15 (64p) ISBN 978-1-60819-689-0
The remarkably straightforward title tells the reader exactly what to expect: 26 cartoons (plus a couple of bonuses), each accompanied by a short paragraph of the author's musings on what's illustrated. Chast's nervous cross-hatching and wiggly,...
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Roz Chast. Bloomsbury, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60819-806-1
“Something more pleasant” than the certainty of old age and death is what Chast’s parents would prefer to talk about, in this poignant and funny text-and-cartoon memoir of their final years. (In one cartoon, the Grim Reaper declares, “The Chasts are
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Roz Chast. Bloomsbury USA, $28 (168p) ISBN 978-1-62040-321-1
Brooklyn-born Chast follows up her emotional National Book Award finalist memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant with an expanded version of a guide to Manhattan she made for her college-bound daughter, which enlightens readers on the...
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Roz Chast. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8475-7
Marco the red parrot wanted to do everything (except sleep) in Too Busy Marco. His mind is still awhirl in this school-themed follow-up: while Marco’s teacher, Mrs. Peachtree, drones on (“Monday Tuesday Chewsday Chumday Humday Doo-dah-day”), his...
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Roz Chast. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8476-4
There are only so many hours in a day, but Chast (Marco Goes to School) rules them all as she checks in on 23 geeky kids who each put a highly idiosyncratic stamp on a single, 60-minute interval. Much of the behavior she chronicles hour by hour is...
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Roz Chast. Bloomsbury, $27.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-620-40322-8
This delightful graphic account from New Yorker regular and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Chast (Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?) is both a reflection on the nature of dreaming and the creative process, and a catalog of her...
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