#  Boston College: Roz Chast: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 16, 2016** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

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 **Boston College, Gasson Hall Rm. 100, 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467**  



 

 



 

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Since joining *The New Yorker* in 1978, cartoonist Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern life. Chast’s recent memoir *Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?* (2014), tells the story of losing her elderly parents in middle age. The memoir was a #1 *New York Times* Bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, won the inaugural Kirkus Prize for nonfiction, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. In 2012, she was awarded the N.Y.C. Literary Honor in Humor by Mayor Bloomberg and in 2015 won the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities. Chast’s cartoons have been published in *The New Yorker*, *Scientific American*, the *Harvard Business Review*, and *Mother Jones*. Her work has recently been compiled in *Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006*.



 

 



 

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