PRESS: Lia Halloran and Janna Levin Discuss Visual Inspiration Behind 'Black Hole Survival Guide'

Janna Levin
“Black Hole Survival Guide is the lean distillation of my own strange trip into the universe’s most enigmatic phenomenon. The book is a field guide from a lifetime of thought experiments, explorations of the imagination, and attempts to narrate an encounter with an invisible void…”

Lia Halloran
“I wanted to reference books and imagery of space travel that gained traction during the 60s in the height of the space race—the more fantastical the better. One of my favorites is Beyond Tomorrow: The Next 50 Years in Space by Dandridge M. Cole; it’s generously populated with drawings and paintings of self-titled ‘Space Art’ by Roy G. Scarfo. What’s so captivating about these images is the fortune-telling, magic-ball-peek into an imagined future…”