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The Childhood of Harvey Pekar, 'The Quitter'

Graphic novelist Harvey Pekar emerged from obscurity in the surprise film hit American Splendor. His new graphic novel, The Quitter, offers details of Pekar's upbringing in 1950s Cleveland.

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Other segments from the episode on November 10, 2005

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 10, 2005: Interview with Harvey Pekar; Interview with Moises Naim; Review of My Morning Jackets' new album "Z."
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Tracking the World's Black Market: 'Illicit'

Moises Naim, editor and publisher of Foreign Policy magazine. His new book is Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy. In it, Naim describes an international black market in which illegal arms, drugs and knockoff goods trade across the globe.

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'Z' from My Morning Jacket

Z is the new album from the band My Morning Jacket. The record from the Louisville, Ky., band led by Jim James is its follow-up to 2003's popular It Still Moves.

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Writer Harvey Pekar and his Wife Joyce Brabner

Underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner. In 1976 Pekar published the first in a series of comic books about his mundane life as a veterans hospital clerk and record collector in Cleveland. It was called American Splendor, and he has continued to publish them since. In 1987 one of them earned him an American Book Award. Now he is the subject of the new film American Splendor which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

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Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor"

An anthology of the self-published comic book series has just been released by Doubleday. Pekar's joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about writing, jazz criticism, and the changing landscape of comic books.

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