Roz Chast

Finalist, 2014 National Book Awards

Roz Chast’s cartoons have been published in many magazines, including The New YorkerScientific AmericanHarvard Business ReviewRedbook, and Mother Jones. She is author of Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons of Roz Chast, 1978-2006, a compilation of her favorite cartoons.
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Can't we talk about something more Pleasant?
ISBN 9781608198061 Bloomsbury

A portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? shows the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller. More about this book >

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Roz Chast reads from Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? at 2014 NBA Finalists Reading

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Roz Chast

Roz Chast’s cartoons have been published in many magazines, including The New YorkerScientific AmericanHarvard Business ReviewRedbook, and Mother Jones. She is author of Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons of Roz Chast, 1978-2006, a compilation of her favorite cartoons. She also illustrated The Alphabet from A to Y, with Bonus Letter, Z, the bestselling children’s book by Steve Martin.

Chast’s awards and honors include honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston, and Pratt Institute. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.

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