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A review by zmarshall839
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
5.0
This book was extremely compelling. It's interesting because the main point, as I understood it, is about how there's an important relationship inside the brain between drawing and writing - creating images and creating stories. I sort of expected this, and I sort of didn't.
What I expected was for Barry to insist that images are important, and so is writing by hand. There were moments when I was a little skeptical; how could drawings by people who aren't that good at drawing be interesting? Barry insists that they are. And the thing I didn't expect was that they really are! There's something to them. It made me want to revise my English classes to include more drawing. Like, immediately!
Also, it was a little nostalgic reading about UW-Madison where Barry taught these classes now that I'm three years out of graduating from there.
What I expected was for Barry to insist that images are important, and so is writing by hand. There were moments when I was a little skeptical; how could drawings by people who aren't that good at drawing be interesting? Barry insists that they are. And the thing I didn't expect was that they really are! There's something to them. It made me want to revise my English classes to include more drawing. Like, immediately!
Also, it was a little nostalgic reading about UW-Madison where Barry taught these classes now that I'm three years out of graduating from there.