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Nate Powell Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation & Fall Through
About the author:
Nate Powell is a National Book Award–winning cartoonist and North Little Rock native. His work includes civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, Save It for Later, Come Again, and Two Dead. Powell’s work has received multiple Eisner Awards, won ALA and YALSA distinctions, and is a two-time Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
About the books:
The full comics adaptation of James Loewen’s influential Lies My Teacher Told Me recenters multiple issues at the core of today’s crisis of democracy, from multigenerational misunderstandings of American history to the pitfalls of mythologizing our historical figures. Loewen’s multimillion-selling 1995 edition helped define how we discuss and consider accurate representations of history today. Powell’s graphic edition contextualizes that updated research in relation to modern book-ban movements and media literacy in the 2020s and beyond.
The new graphic novel Fall Through is an interdimensional 1990s Southern punk drama following the changing relationships in an underground Arkansas band locked into an endless tour. Powell’s magical realism illuminates the ephemeral, fleeting nature of free spaces within a creative community. Using the medium of comics, Fall Through combines Haruki Murakami’s deepening disorientation and Ursula K. Le Guin’s focus on human connection and freedom to craft a love letter to Arkansas weirdos everywhere.