Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein at The Brattle Theatre

Monday, October 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM

The Brattle Theatre — 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA

Harvard Book Store welcomes Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein —beloved and longtime New Yorker cartoonists—for a discussion of their highly anticipated new graphic novel, The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation , a hilarious and all-too-relatable take on kitchen anxiety. They will be joined in conversation by Hillary Chute —Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and author or editor of several titles on comics. Roz Chast‘s cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a #1 New York Times bestseller (100 weeks), a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Kirkus Prize winner and finalist for the National Book Award; national bestseller I Must Be Dreaming; Going Into Town (Winner of the New York City Book Award); What I Hate: From A to Z; and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left, and Theories of Everything, among others. She was awarded the Harvey Hall of Fame Award, and in 2024 was awarded the National Humanities Medal. She lives in Connecticut and New York. Photo Credit: Bill Hayes Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and…