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Alice Neel on painting, money, and Russian caviar
Notes on the brilliant and idiosyncratic American artist
Mason Currey
Apr 12
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Byron composed on horseback, Shelley gnawed a hunch of dry bread
A visit with the legendary Romantic poets in Pisa
Mason Currey
Apr 5
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Advice on impostor syndrome, procrastination, and getting to your real work
“Every time I sit down to do work, my feelings of inadequacy take over.”
Mason Currey
Mar 29
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Time, Strength, Cash, Patience
If I tell you about my new book project, then it’s real and I actually have to write it
Mason Currey
Mar 22
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The art life has always been a struggle
Fifteenth-century artist hijinks via Vasari’s Lives
Mason Currey
Mar 15
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Arthur Schopenhauer followed the same routine every day for 27 years
“At noon he ceased work for the day and spent half-an-hour practising the flute”
Mason Currey
Mar 8
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Emily Carr: brilliant painter, terrible landlord
“Oh dear, oh dear, all the wickedness in me rebels at the beastly, rotting house.”
Mason Currey
Mar 1
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Advice on post-project depression
"I can’t find the juice and then I just feel terrible."
Mason Currey
Feb 22
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Your advice on post-project depression
Discussion thread re: this week's advice column, for a writer feeling bereft after finishing her first book
Mason Currey
Feb 21
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Tejal Rao on food writing, aimless roaming, and the joy of deadlines
The Los Angeles–based critic shares her Covid routine
Mason Currey
Feb 15
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Anthony Burgess could write a novel in four weeks
“I write fast. So what?”
Mason Currey
Feb 8
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Jason Polan, artist of the everyday
Remembering the late artist's contagious delight in the visual world
Mason Currey
Feb 1
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