Notes from an Accidental Professor
by Lynda Barry
Recommended by Elizabeth Gilbert
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The awardwinning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genredefying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable, which was featured in The New York Times Magazi...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Art, and Nonfiction.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
“I love this book so freaking much I bought it twice. I suggest you do the same. Lynda Barry is a force of awesomeness”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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