|aDaily rituals :|bhow artists work /|cMason Currey.
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|aNew York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2013.
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|axviii, 278 pages :|billustrations ;|c20 cm.
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|tW.H. Auden --|tFrancis Bacon --|tSimone de Beauvoir --|tThomas Wolfe --|tPatricia Highsmith --|tFederico Fellini --|tIngmar Bergman --|tMorton Feldman --|tWolfgang Amadeus Mozart --|tLudwig van Beethoven --|tSoren Kierkegaard --|tVoltaire --|tBenjamin Franklin --|tAnthony Trollope --|tJane Austen --|tFrédéric Chopin --|tGustave Flaubert --|tHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec --|tThomas Mann --|tKarl Marx --|tSigmund Freud --|tCarl Jung --|tGustav Mahler --|tRichard Strauss --|tHenri Matisse --|tJoan Miró --|tGertrude Stein --|tErnest Hemingway --|tHenry Miller --|tF. Scott Fitzgerald --|tWilliam Faulkner --|tArthur Miller --|tBenjamin Britten --|tAnn Beattie --|tGünter Grass --|tTom Stoppard --|tHaruki Murakami --|tToni Morrison --|tJoyce Carol Oates --|tChuck Close --|tFrancine Prose --|tJohn Adams --|tSteve Reich --|tNicholson Baker --|tB.F. Skinner --|tMargaret Mead --|tJonathan Edwards --|tSamuel Johnson --|tJames Boswell --|tImmanuel Kant --|tWilliam James --|tHenry James --|tFranz Kafka --|tJames Joyce --|tMarcel Proust --|tSamuel Beckett --|tIgor Stravinsky --|tErik Satie --|tPablo Picasso --|tJean-Paul Sartre --|tT.S. Eliot --|tDmitry Shostakovich --|tHenry Green --|tAgatha Christie --|tSomerset Maugham --|tGraham Greene --|tJoseph Cornell --|tSylvia Plath --|tJohn Cheever --|tLouis Armstrong --|tW.B. Yeats --|tWallace Stevens --|tKingsley Amis --|tMartin Amis --|tUmberto Eco --|tWoody Allen --|tDavid Lynch --|tMaya Angelou --|tGeorge Balanchine --|tAl Hirschfeld --|tTruman Capote --|tRichard Wright --|tH.L. Mencken --|tPhilip Larkin --|tFrank Lloyd Wright --|tLouis I. Kahn --|tGeorge Gershwin --|tJoseph Heller --|tJames Dickey --|tNikola Tesla --|tGlenn Gould --|tLouise Bourgeois --|tChester Himes --|tFlannery O'Connor --|tWilliam Styron --|tPhilip Roth --|tP.G. Wodehouse --|tEdith Sitwell --|tThomas Hobbes --|tJohn Milton --|tRene Descartes --|tJohann Wolfgang von Goethe --|tFriedrich Schiller --|tFranz Schubert --|tFranz Liszt --|tGeorge Sand --|tHonoré de Balzac --|tVictor Hugo --|tCharles Dickens --|tCharles Darwin -- Herman Melville --|tNathaniel Hawthorne --|tLeo Tolstoy -- Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky --|tMark Twain --|tAlexander Graham Bell --|tVincent van Gogh --|tN.C. Wyeth --|tGeorgia O'Keeffe --|tSergey Rachmaninoff --|tVladimir Nabokov -- Balthus --|tLe Corbusier --|tBuckminster Fuller --|tPaul Erdos --|tAndy Warhol --|tEdward Abbey --|tV.S. Pritchett --|tEdmund Wilson --|tJohn Updike --|tAlbert Einstein --|tL. Frank Baum --|tKnut Hamsun --|tWilla Cather --|tAyn Rand --|tGeorge Orwell --|tJames T. Farrell --|tJackson Pollock --|tCarson McCullers --|tWillem de Kooning --|tJean Stafford --|tDonald Barthelme --|tAlice Munro --|tJerzy Kosinski --|tIsaac Asimov --|tOliver Sacks --|tAnne Rice --|tCharles Schulz --|tWilliam Gass --|tDavid Foster Wallace --|tMarina Abramovic --|tTwyla Tharp --|tStephen King --|tMarilynne Robinson --|tSaul Bellow --|tGerhard Richter --|tJonathan Franzen --|tMaira Kalman --|tGeorges Simenon --|tStephen Jay Gould --|tBernard Malamud.
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|a"How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work--in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey. Portraits that inspire, amuse, and delight and that reveal the profound fusion of discipline and dissipation through which the artistic temperament is allowed to evolve, recharge, emerge. From Beethoven and Kafka to George Sand, Picasso, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie; from Leo Tolstoy and Henry James to Charles Dickens and John Updike, here are writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors, and scientists on how they create (and avoid creating) their creations. A Sampling of Daily Rituals Charles Dickens Dickens's eldest son recalled that, "no city clerk was ever more methodical or orderly than he; no humdrum, monotonous, conventional task could ever have been discharged with more punctuality or with more business-like regularity than he gave to the work of his imagination and fancy." Dickens rose at 7:00, had breakfast at 8:00, and was in his study by 9:00. He stayed there until 2:00, taking a brief break for lunch with his family, during which he often seemed to be in a trance, eating mechanically and barely speaking a word before hurrying back to his desk. On an ordinary day he could complete about two thousand words, but during a flight of imagination he sometimes managed twice that amount. Maya Angelou I keep a hotel room in which I do my work--a tiny, mean room with just a bed and, sometimes, if I can find it, a face basin. I keep a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards, and a bottle of sherry in the room ..."--|cProvided by publisher.
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|a"How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers""--|cProvided by publisher.
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”. . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.” Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . . Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”). Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.
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Mason Currey was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey’s writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in Brooklyn.
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