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What WHAT Is? Lynda Barry

Photo courtesy Politics and Prose LYNDA BARRY is that rare thing: a woman who's managed to make it in the world of comics. It's hard enough to come up against the comedy glass ceiling, but comic books are even more of a boys club than the Straight Talk Express. (Zing! Score one for Maureen Dowd and all women everywhere.)

Anyway, Lynda Barry has written "What It Is," a book about creativity that seeks to offer the average book reading American citizen a gateway to artistic and literary creativity. The book includes exercises, a "method" to reach your inner creative self and of course cartoons. lf Barry herself weren't so awesome, this kind of thing would be insipid.

Express contributor spoke to Barry; read it here.

» Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; Fri., Oct. 3, 7 p.m., free; 202-364-1919. (Van Ness)

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