Lynda Barry writes the weekly comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which can be found in many alternative weekly newspapers. Barry’s work is often funny but serious, sad but optimistic. When she writes about herself, as she does in this excerpt from the book One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), she is very honest about her own past. She currently teaches a popular writing workshop called Writing the Unthinkable. Barry has written seventeen books; her most recent is the collection Blabber Blabber Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything (2011).

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