David Barringer

Shock Books, Volume 1: Beauty Shock!

Beauty Shock: Shock Books, Volume 1 | The Collected Excerpts of the First Shock Books | Fall 2011 | Winthrop University | Full Color | Softcover | 7.5″ x 7.5″ | 64 pages | For Sale at Lulu | In the fall of 2011, students in a pilot seminar at Winthrop University wrote, illustrated and designed their own Shock Books. This book features excerpts of their wonderful, exceptional work. At the start of the seminar, students chose narrower themes, which I …

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The $10 Holiday Sale & More

 $10 Stocking Stuffers at dB Shop (free shipping) The 2012 Pledge Poster: thermographic poster with glitter The Secrets Bundle: 10 posters and mini-posters, postcards, and a book Love Me Alone, American Home Life, Johnny Red, Unbound, What Happened to Us, …

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My Captions for New Yorker Cartoon Contest

The New Yorker, to which I subscribe, runs a contest every week. Readers submit captions to cartoons provided by the New Yorker cartoonists. I always scribble in my own captions and never submit them. I collected some choice ones above. …

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Notes from New York in November, Part V (End)

Every choice bears a ghost who takes the other path. I go right. My ghost goes left. A year passes. I’m walking down the street in New York, and I feel strange. I walk heavier. I’ve gained some kind of …

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Notes from New York in November, Part IV

[My brother Mike and his girlfriend Annie] I woke up. That’s a simple sentence—I woke up—but it’s not a simple thing to describe. Waking up is not a simple experience. Sleeping is not a simple experience. I don’t think of …

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