Syllabus
Notes From an Accidental Professor
$53.53
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2014
Summary
Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry’s pioneering, life-changing workshop
The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable, which was featured in The New York Times Magazine.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770461611 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770461612 |
| Author: | Lynda Barry |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 189mm x 244mm |
| Series: | Lynda Barry's Creativity Series |
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Critics Review
[ Syllabus is] a must-read for Barry fans and deep thinkers.
Barry isn’t particularly interested in the writer’s craft. She’s more interested in where ideas come from - and her goal is to help people tap into what she considers to be an innate creativity. - New York Times
Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin Madison. In 2019, she received the “Genius grant” from the MacArthurs Fellows program.
In addition to What It Is, Barry has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels:
- What It Is
- Picture This
- Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor
- Making Comics
Her seminal comic strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek, features Marlys, Maybonne, and Freddie and was collected into:
- The! Greatest! of! Marlys!
- The Freddie Stories
- Come Over Come Over
- My Perfect Life
- It’s So Magic
Her other books include:
- One! Hundred! Demons!
- Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
- The Good Times are Killing Me
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