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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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Advice on jumping off the deep end
A new freelancer worries about challenging days ahead
Mason Currey
Jan 25
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Your advice for a fearful freelancer
Discussion thread re: this week's advice column, for a new freelancer who feels like she's jumping off the deep end
Mason Currey
Jan 24
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The joy of Fran Lebowitz
Blocked? Maybe. Tortured? Nope.
Mason Currey
Jan 18
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Hayao Miyazaki, creativity, and selfishness
Watching a four-part documentary on Japan’s irritable genius of animation
Mason Currey
Jan 11
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Advice on energy
Two very different dilemmas with—perhaps—the same solution
Mason Currey
Dec 21, 2020
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Edna O’Brien on the “eminently masochistic exercise” of making art
“It’s quite sick in the sense of normal human enjoyment of life.”
Mason Currey
Dec 14, 2020
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Sarah Kempa on making artwork with a day job (during a pandemic)
The cartoonist and illustrator behind Aunt Sarah Draws shares her Covid routine
Mason Currey
Dec 7, 2020
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