Kristen Radtke is Coming to Unbound!

Each year at Unbound we hope to bring new and different elements of books and literature to the festival. One increasingly popular genre that we have been wanting to introduce into the programming is graphic novels and memoirs. To that end, we’re thrilled to welcome Kristen Radtke to Unbound next April!

Kristen Radtke is the author of the genre-smashing graphic memoir, Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon, 2017), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Nylon Most Anticipated Book. The Chicago Tribune raved, "Imagine Wanting Only This [is] one of the most haunting graphic memoirs I've ever read. . . . There is a proud tradition of graphic memoirists—of those dually equipped to wield word and image—to tell the true and deeply considered story of a life. Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, Riad Sattouf, David Small, Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman and others have done it searingly well. And now to that list add Radtke, who proves herself an equal among equals with this debut book. . . ."

With breathtaking illustrations and piercing text, Imagine Wanting Only This never shies away from the big questions: why are we here and what will we leave behind?