Category: creativity
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I ordered this book on a whim and it spoke to me. When the amazing and insightful graphic artist/cartoonist Peter Dunlap Shohl pointed me to Brian Fies‘s work on Facebook, I got intrigued and began following him. I have no previous experience with graphic memoir but as a longtime journalist I know that the best…
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The book was waiting for me. It was a moment when you can’t help believing in fate. I’ve been compiling a list of books to discuss with fellow writers at a workshop I’m giving in June. I want a range of voices and genres, and woke up one morning in early January thinking to include…
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Emily Carr evokes the eery feeling that unexpected utter darkness evokes. The Canadian artist thought a meeting she often went to would be in its usual location in a Victoria BC theater. She liked to sit in the balcony for these meetings. That meeting didn’t happen. Here’s what she noted about the experience. I must…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 