Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor

Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor

By
Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
2014 • 200 pages

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41 books

On Deck

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The Just City
Consider Phlebas
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Brighton Library

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The Leopard
Constellations
Steal Like an Artist

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S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Trial by Journal
This Is Not a Book
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

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53 books

Serendipity

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Draft No. 4
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The Zoom Trilogy
Chapter Two Is Missing
Every Little Letter

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Creativity

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Seven Days in the Art World
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
High Tide in Tucson
Journal of a Solitude
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Inspiration

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The World According To Mister Rogers
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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Just For Fun

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Art

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My Hair
Barefoot Books Children of the World
The Goldfinch
The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh
Not Quite Snow White
How to Read a Book

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82 books

Imagination

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Off to See the Sea
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This Is Still Not a Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Tree in Me
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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2017

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Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

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6 books

Library

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Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest
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The Westing Game
Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

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303 books

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Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Graphic

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Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott's Precious Little Life
Moomin and the Sea
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

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Gn Drawn Quarterly

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Graphic Novels

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Office Shelves

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Writing

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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Secondary Lit Academic

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