false 31441858 178078 2086132 1897299354 9781897299357 203 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205680455m/2086132.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205680455s/2086132.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2086132.What_It_Is 4.30 610 “Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon
</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>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. What It Is 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 & 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.”</DIV></DIV>]]> 11646 4.29 5533 895 2008 5 3 false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 28 11:50:48 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 10:22:12 -0800 2008
This is what a book about writing should be. It was really interesting to read this so soon after Stephen King's "On Writing", because it really underlined how far short of the target his book fell.
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