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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Dustin Parsons, âExploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagramsâ (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Description: If you open Dustin Parsonsâ new book, youâll find maps, figures, footprints, a floor plan, silhouettes of roadside birds, charts of riverbed topography, origami directions for an owl in twenty-six folds, and an anatomized dog. What might surprise youâthat is, what might surprise you in addition to finding all of these illustrations in a single bookâis that Parsons uses them to illustrate his experience of fatherhood, not only that of being a father to two sons, but also of being the son of a father who used similar illustrations in his own work as an oilfield mechanic...