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On wriggling through a creative life—with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.
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Reminder: Book Club meeting tomorrow (opens the original)
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Hi, everyone — Just a quick reminder that the next meeting of the Subtle Maneuvers Book Club will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK time. Join us on Zoom here: Read more
Chaos and whim and me (opens the original)
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“A poet’s livelihood is in his moods,” Jim Harrison wrote in a 1993 essay, and this week I’m feeling the truth and absurdity of that sentiment.For a few months now, I’ve been quietly plotting to spring an announcement on you all, today, about a Big Impressive Creativity Workshop that I dreamed up at the beginning of the summer and was planning to offer on Zoom this fall. Except, last week, I realized: wait, no, my heart is not in this, and feverishly pivoted to an entirely new workshop idea, and
The juice is in the gap (opens the original)
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It’s been six weeks since our last Subtle Maneuvers Book Club meeting and yet I’m still thinking about Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story, and still trying to fully integrate some of the deeper, more mysterious ideas in this slender, seemingly straightforward book.On the one hand, Gornick’s thesis is very clear: Writers of personal nonfiction (essays and memoirs) need to fashion a persona who can transform a situation into a story. On the other hand, it’s n
My missed connection with Mary Heilmann (opens the original)
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How to fall and fly at the same time (opens the original)
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This week I’m thinking about “deep play,” a phrase that keeps coming up in interviews with the musician Steven Hall, aka Nirosta Steel, whose groovy and ghostly double album My Skyscraper is the only thing I want to listen to lately, and who told the newsletter last month:There’s this anthropological term called “deep play.” Arthur [Russell] and I would talk about this. Birds learn how to fall
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