I think it's very easy to lose sight of what the audience for a work of art wants. They don't want some abstract thing that fits every criteria of perfection. Janet Malcolm is a good example of this, or both. At the end of Michael Lewis book, you feel like you've been hanging out with him and have a window into his world. And my worry when I was reading them was that people weren't having that. That was not the experience my readers were having.
In which Malcolm reunites with his colleague, friend and fellow host of Broken Record (not to mention a music icon in his own right), Rick Rubin.
This month Rick released his first book, called "The Creative Act: A Way Of Being." In it he shares practical principles on how anyone can generate creative authenticity and ultimately find their voice.
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