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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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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We saw Lynda Barry speak about this book at ComicCon. She sang and danced and told jokes and reminded us all what it was like to play when we were really little. Then she signed the book for us and told Shawn and me that we &quot;looked good!&quot; She rocks.<br/><br/>Apart from that, this is a go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28698416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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