{"id":137389,"date":"2019-06-19T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=137389"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:27:59","slug":"how-i-tried-to-be-a-good-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/19\/how-i-tried-to-be-a-good-person\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Tried to Be a Good Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ulli Lust was born in Vienna in 1967. In 1995, she moved to Berlin to study graphic design. Her work ranges from comics journalism to erotic-mythological poetry to graphic autobiography. She runs the online publishing company electrocomics, which publishes e-books and online comics by a growing group of international cartoonists. Her books include <\/em>Airpussy (L\u2019employ\u00e9 du moi, 2009), <\/em>Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (Fantagraphics, 2013), <\/em>Voices in the Dark (New York Review Comics, 2017), and most recently <\/em>How I Tried to Be a Good Person\u00a0(Fantagraphics, 2019). She lives in Berlin. <\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted from\u00a0<\/em>How I Tried to Be a Good Person<\/a>, by Ulli Lust, out next month from Fantagraphics. \u00a9 2019 Ulli Lust. Images courtesy of Fantagraphics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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