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    <![CDATA[What It Is]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;<strong>“Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —</strong><em><strong>Salon</strong><br/></em>&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. <em>What It Is</em> demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry’s first Drawn &amp; Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: “The ordinary is extraordinary.”&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need to read this book.<br/><br/>I'm having the urge to create again.  I drew comics about 2 years ago, to get me through my first dating relationship in three years, which turned out bad (the relationship).  <br/><br/>I burned the comics, to forget the relationship.  I knew it would hurt, bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26951386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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