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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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        <name><![CDATA[Lynda Barry]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would put this into the hands of anyone who wants to explore the creative process.  This book is about memory and inspiration and drawing and writing and self-doubt and criticism (for good or bad), and it has questions that prompt a writer or an artist to think big thoughts and writing exercises t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34131727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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