so allison bechtel is one of my current favorite writers and authors. another book is persepolis about the iranian revolution, and she is an iranian french woman and it's a very different style but of coming of age at a time of repression and autocracyie in a the traitic nightmare in her country and it has all the adolescent tropes of falling in love and discovering your body and it's again the backdrop of this historic moment. very moving book and those books together show you kind of the great flexibility of the medium and the great things you can do with comics which i don't preen -- pretend to be an expert on comics but it's a terrific medium and one which reaches into all corners of the world that others don't. >> to see more of summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at book tv.org. >> this summer, book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> cnn's wolf blitzer. what are you reading. >> beginning with the empore record's new clothes, written by a well-known washington lawyer, involved in watergate and in the 9/11 comm

so allison bechtel is one of my favorite current writers, authors, artists. and the other book that you may have heard of is called persepolis which is a graphic memoir of the iranian revolution. she's an iranian-french woman, and it's an extraordinary book and a very different style than bechtel, but of coming of age at a time of repression and autocracy and kind of a theological, a theocratic kind of nightmare in her country and fleeing to france, and it's got all the adolescent troaps of falling in love and discovering your body and all the rest of it. but told against the backdrop of this gigantic historic moment. very moving book and shows you both books together show you kind of the great flexibility of this medium and the great things you can do with comics. which i don't pretend to be an expert about ft i've taught comics for a long time, and now i've written a comic, but, man, it's a terrific medium, and it's one that reaches into all corners of the world that other literature doesn't. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information