{"id":363,"date":"2013-07-09T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:23:51","slug":"lynda-barry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/lynda-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynda Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College was pleased to welcome the cartoonist and novelist\u00a0Lynda Barry<\/strong> as the Fall 2013 Visiting Author.\u00a0On Wednesday September 25, 2013 at 8:00 p.m., Barry read and discussed her multimedia work with the aid of photos, videos, cartoons, and text. Then she fielded questions and signed books in the Hyman Forum within Goucher’s Athenaeum to a packed house of rapt attendees.\u00a0The event was free and open to the public.\u00a0On Monday and Tuesday September 23 and 24, 2013, Lynda Barry taught two free master classes on each day from 4:00 p,m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Heubeck Multipurpose Room at Goucher College to a broad cross section of students, faculty, and community writers and artists. Of her writing workshops, the New York Times notes that, “Lynda Barry will make you believe in yourself.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Enrollment in Lynda Barry’s Monday & Tuesday master classes is now closed.<\/p>\n

Lynda Barry’s Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of America’s premier visual storytellers, Lynda Barry is the recipient of the 2009 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Reality-Based Work. A prolific author, Barry first gained acclaim for her long-running weekly comic strip for The Chicago Reader entitled “Ernie Pook’s Comeek.” She went on to publish an array of celebrated illustrated novels and comics, including\u00a0Girls and Boys<\/i>\u00a0(1981),\u00a0Big Ideas<\/i>(1983),\u00a0Everything in the World\u00a0<\/i>(1986),\u00a0Down the Street<\/i>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0The Fun House\u00a0<\/i>(1988),\u00a0The Good Times Are Killing Me<\/i>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0Come Over, Come Over<\/i>\u00a01990),\u00a0My Perfect Life<\/i>\u00a0(1992),\u00a0The Lynda Barry Experience\u00a0<\/i>(1993),\u00a0It’s So Magic<\/i>\u00a0(1994),\u00a0The Freddie Stories<\/i>\u00a0(1999),\u00a0Cruddy<\/i>\u00a0(1999),\u00a0The Greatest of Marlys<\/i>\u00a0(2000),\u00a0One! Hundred! Demons!\u00a0<\/i>(2002),\u00a0What It Is<\/i>\u00a0(2008),\u00a0Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book\u00a0<\/i>(2010), and\u00a0Blabber Blabber Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything<\/i>\u00a0(2011).\u00a0The Good Times Are Killing Me<\/i>, a play about interracial friendship, was made into an Off-Broadway play in 1991 and her performances are documented in\u00a0The Lynda Barry Experience\u00a0<\/i>(a 1993 spoken word CD). Barry is also an internationally recognized arts educator who has offered workshops at such institutions as the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York; The Crossings in Austin, Texas; Arts Institute and Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and the Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

Feel free to click the following links for more information about Lynda Barry:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A New York Times article about Lynda Barry’s master classes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda Barry’s Author’s Page at www.amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lynda Barry at Drawn & Quarterly<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Video Introduction to Lynda Barry’s Vision<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lynda Barry’s Pep Talk for National Novel Writing Month<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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