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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life by Mason Currey is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books. Mason Currey is the author of the Daily Rituals books-Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (2019)-featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day work habits of more than 300 brilliant minds. He has worked as the managing editor of Metropolis, the executive editor of Print, and a senior editor at Core77, and his freelance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Slate. Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers, a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process.
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"Adam Verner's breezy narration keeps this unusual take on the lives of artists moving at a brisk pace. His resonant voice and matter-of-fact style encourage listeners to engage with a varied group of creative people, including painters, writers, poets, filmmakers, and musicians from across history, who persisted against all odds. Such well-known personages as Cézanne, Kafka, Hayden, van Gogh, and Godard found financial support in many ways, ranging from inheritance, allowance from a relative, day jobs and odd jobs, teaching, rich patrons, government grants, and even theft. Incongruous as it may seem, day jobs and unrelated life experiences may actually provide inspiration for the creative spirit.
Listeners will be inspired to let nothing as mundane as money stand in the way of pursuing one's artistic talent."
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