What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
New Books in Literary Studies
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You Could Be a Grandpa
Noah: I think starting out by really, really digging into what's already in existence and somehow taking that and learning it and making it your own is how you actually come to understand what is sufficiently similar and what is sufficiently different to actually stand out. The hardest thing I think to develop in the creative process and the creative production process is taste is knowing what's good, what's not good,. What's sufficiently similar, what's sufficiently differentiated. That familiarity that comes from taking the past and Making It Your Own is how you start to develop tastes.
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