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61) To make
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and the spirit of collaboration. This lyrical story from Danielle Davis and Mags DeRoma is perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Gyo Fujikawa, and Julie Fogliano. To make ... a cake, a garden, a song, you first gather, then make--and wait. To make a story (like this one), you gather, make, wait. To make anything--big or small--it will take some time. You may have to gather more, make more,...
62) Don't live for your obituary: advice, commentary and personal observations on writing, 2008-2017
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Between 2008 and 2017, author John Scalzi wrote fifteen books, became a New York Times bestselling author, and won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Locus and the Governor's Award for the Arts in Ohio. He also had book deals crater, lost more awards than he won, worried about his mortgage and health insurance, flubbed a few deadlines, tried to be a decent parent and husband, and got into some arguments on the Internet, because, after all, that's...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
La vida creativa no es un viaje lineal a una meta, es un bucle, así que encuentra una rutina diaria, porque hoy es el único día que importa. Desconéctate del mundo para conectarte contigo: a veces sólo tienes que ponerte en modo avión. Sigue avanzando celebra salir al aire libre y dar un paseo (como el director Ingmar Bergman le dijo a su hija: "Los demonios odian el aire fresco"). Presta atención, y especialmente presta atención a aquello...
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he―a writer who no longer writes but can’t stop reading and rereading himself―remember. -from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
You don't have to choose between a creative life and a prosperous one. Goins believes we live in an era of unprecedented opportunity, and invites readers to drop the myths and flat-out lies that have been drilled into them. Real artists don't starve-- they thrive. And you can, too.
Bestselling author Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage....
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Anthems We Loveis not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. Thereis no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " -Cameron Crowe, Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter (Jerry Maguire,Almost Famous,Say Anything, andPearl Jam Twenty) From U2 to Carly Simon, the Temptations to TLC, artists describe in their own words how their songs became the soundtrack of your life...
Author
Publisher
Cleis Press, an imprint of Start Midnight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Gives readers of any scientific level an introduction to neuroscience and shows them how things like creativity, skill, and even perception of self can grow and change by utilizing the bodys most important muscle.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after graduating with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, filmmaker Tao Ruspoli returned to visit his one-time professor, world-renowned philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. That visit led to meetings with a whole generation of philosophers whom Dreyfus had taught, which subsequently sparked the inspiration for this film. Being in the World raises the question of whether we have forgotten what it means to be truly human in today's technological...
71) Utopia
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her art-star husband Billy finds a replacement. Paz, fresh out of art school in New York, returns to California to take her place. But she is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere: in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind. As Paz attempts to claim...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source of his creative impulse--a great-grandfather who traveled alone from Ukraine to America in 1910, eventually settling as a rag peddler in the tiny town of Elma, Iowa--through the generations that followed, Biespiel tracks his childhood in Texas and his university days in the northeast, led...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor-the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure-through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects-architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century...
Author
Publisher
Pengiun Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid, visionary - form the spiraling core of this unique and haunting journey into perception. It explores and embodies Burroughs's provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness, and creativity.
75) Martyr!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past - toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
77) Making comics
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Being in the World raises the question of whether we have forgotten what it means to be truly human in today's technological age, and this program proceeds to answer this question by taking a journey around the world to meet a whole host of remarkable individuals, including Manuel Molina, the legendary poet and flamenco master; Leah Chase, affectionately known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine; and Hiroshi Sakaguchi, a master carpenter from Japan.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share. The...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A meditation on solitude as a font of creativity and spirituality. Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not "single"-meaningless outside of coupledom-but "solitary," able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate "fortress marriage," turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening....
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