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Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Every so often a book comes along that surpasses expectations, taking readers on an inspirational voyage that they don't want to leave. This is one such book. Each page is a feast for the eyes with beautiful full-page collages of photographs, watercolors, ink drawings, and text, resulting in a gorgeous volume that explores and encourages writing in a combination of ways. The author challenges readers with philosophical questions to ponder, such as What is an image? Where are they found? Can we remember something we can't imagine? The volume also acts as a workbook that successfully encourages teens to explore their own creativity through writing. In addition, autobiographical glimpses of Barry's journey from childhood to adulthood appear throughout the book. The struggles and obstacles she faces while following her path of becoming an artist and writer allow readers to believe in the possibility of writing themselves. This stunning book will appeal to those teens who are interested in delving into their creativity through words and art. The questions posed and valuable exercises that exist within its pages, along with the illustrations, could also make this book a valuable tool for English and art teachers in the classroom.–Lara McAllister, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Praise for Lynda Barry: "Barry is, underneath the wonky handwriting and the quirky, naive drawings, a great memoirist . . . Like [Tobias] Wolff and [Dave] Eggers, she finds a tone that accommodates self-criticism and self-irony without tipping over into self-loathing . . . but what she is particularly good at is resonance." --"The New York Times" "Barry is not just a storyteller, she's an evangelist who urges people to pick up a pen--or a brush . . . and look at their own lives with fresh, forgiving eyes." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "America's leading cartoon artist of childhood angst . . . The precise rightness of Barry's smallest observation puts TV's "The Wonder Years" to shame." --"Entertainment Weekly"Praise for Lynda Barry: “Barry is, underneath the wonky handwriting and the quirky, naïve drawings, a great memoirist . . . Like [Tobias] Wolff and [Dave] Eggers, she finds a tone that accommodates self-criticism and self-irony without tipping over into self-loathing . . . but what she is particularly good at is resonance.” —"The New York Times" “Barry is not just a storyteller, she’s an evangelist who urges people to pick up a pen—or a brush . . . and look at their own lives with fresh, forgiving eyes.” —"San Francisco Chronicle" “America’s leading cartoon artist of childhood angst . . . The precise rightness of Barry’s smallest observation puts TV’s "The Wonder Years" to shame.” —"Entertainment Weekly"
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Product details
Hardcover: 209 pages
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly; 1 edition (May 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781897299357
ISBN-13: 978-1897299357
ASIN: 1897299354
Product Dimensions:
8.7 x 1 x 11.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
105 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#48,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Pretty good book for Young Adult range readers.
I bought one copy as a gift, read it before giving it, then bought another gift copy. I thought about it so much that I recently ordered a copy for myself. While I am not an aspiring writer, I love it because it talks about the gradual crushing, internally and externally, of the creative instinct we are all born with. Self expression is so important to our wellbeing, and it is all to easy to judge ourselves in the "eye of the other." Barry reminds us of the carefree self-expression of children, that we were all children at one point in time, and that we all heard, in one way or another, that we didn't measure up to the judgements of others. I plan to use this book to help me get back to creative activity without thinking about a receiving audience - to create just to please myself.
I bought this book because I was fortunate enough to see Lynda Barry speak, and her message was so powerful and inspiring. This book is amazing, complex, and very nuanced as she guides the reader through her creative process through the lens of imagination and memory. Barry has spent the last 40 years of her career pondering the question, "What is an image?" and this book is a fabulous journey through her own creative process and how she accesses her own creativity.This book is particularly meaningful to me because I haven't drawn anything since I dropped out of graduate school about fifteen years ago; a sad death of my own creativity that was once integral to my self-image, and I haven't been able to reclaim. I feel like a cherished part of myself is still stuck somewhere in time, preserved like a fly in resin that has fossilized into amber, an artifact of an earlier self that still feels alive in some respects. Barry's work explores these artifacts and how images and memory offer insight into our experience.When I was young, I loved art and images so much that I had dreams of becoming an artist. I discovered Barry's comics when I was 13 years old, and I found her work to be fascinating and something that I identified with very strongly. Barry's work, "What It Is", courageous and at times confessional in nature and raw, shows us that self-expression and creativity are fundamental to the human experience, and that it's accessible by ordinary people, too. At Barry's urging, I am drawing in the margins, during meetings at work, and reconnecting with the story that is mine alone to tell. With clarity and loving-kindness, she took her hand in mine and said, "Don't let the architecture bastards win." Her courage to connect with her own experience and earlier selves and memories, is a formidable example to others how our shared humanity can be accessed through images and the arts.Thank you, Lynda Barry.
The brilliant Lynda Barry, artist and author and my favorite as both, helps the reader to find (well rediscover actually) "what it is" that induces creativity and creation in us and how to recapture that process which came so easily to us as children but seemed to disappear as we aged. The book is subtitled "Do you wish you could write" and it was created to help HER students where she teaches in finding that magical space that allows one to write from unhindered, unedited and bountiful space BUT the process can be applied to any type of artistic or creative work you want to do but don't know how to channel your muse. Its the cure for those blank page/blank canvas/blank stage blues. Although her art is brilliant it can be a bit overwhelming with all of the tiny details so I do recommend getting the workbook "Syllabus" (recently published by Barry as well) to help guide you through the process. Its such an enjoyable way to reconnect with ones creative side and if for some reason her process is not for you well then, if nothing else comes of it, it is one hell of a coffee table art book.
I love this book and use it all the time in my writing and my teaching. The autobiographical portions lead us through all the forces that crush our natural creativity, and the exercises help us reclaim that careless improvisatory making spirit of childhood. But beyond that the exercises lead us into deeply *embodied* writing--if you work through her exercises wholeheartedly, you will come out with prose that is shockingly vivid and alive. It's a joy. I recommend this book to everyone writer know--I have no idea why some commenters have said it's primarily for teens.
I've been aware of Lynda Barry for a while. I never really disliked her, but never was drawn to her either.I am a huge fan of this book however. It's part stream-of-consciousness journaling, part structured narrative, and part guidebook for the reader to use in exploration.The journals are interesting, especially as segues between the narrative. The story in the narrative is interesting, and really leads to the guidebook organically.And the guidebook. I love the guidebook. It's part instruction, part inspiration, part exercise book. But it's gorgeous, and messy, and invigorating. While generally lumped in with other comics/graphic novels, this book goes beyond simply storytelling. It's a call to make things, to explore ideas, memories, and feelings. It's awesome. I love it.
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