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Tove Jansson’s summer days
“Tooti and I wake up early, always simultaneously though we sleep in separate beds.”
Mason Currey
Aug 8
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Claes Oldenburg was always starting from scratch
“It’s terrifying to do it this way, but it’s always a great pleasure if it works.”
Mason Currey
Jul 25
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Advice on starting projects (and sticking with them)
Plus, your reading recommendations for an artist and new mother
Mason Currey
Jul 11
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Seven lessons in being an artist from Duncan Hannah
From the late painter’s irresistible journals of 1970s New York
Mason Currey
Jun 27
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"From rage to despair and back again"
Jean Rhys on writing her masterpiece, the novel Wide Sargasso Sea
Mason Currey
Jun 13
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Robert Graves’s writing paradise
A visit to the English poet and novelist’s home in Majorca
Mason Currey
May 31
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The artist Charles Ray walks to Burger King every day
“Not to eat but to think.”
Mason Currey
May 16
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Do I just need to relax??
Pushing yourself vs. letting things come to you—the eternal dilemma
Mason Currey
May 2
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Pat Metheny's compulsive productivity
The jazz guitarist's amazing pre- and post-show routine—plus, a request for your patronage!
Mason Currey
Apr 18
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“A strange empty day”
From May Sarton’s journals—plus, more on paid newsletters
Mason Currey
Apr 4
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Alexander Pope’s paid subscription model
And my thoughts about adopting one for this newsletter
Mason Currey
Mar 21
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Three tales of creative incompetence
“I mean, honestly, it was terrible and I had no idea what I was doing.”
Mason Currey
Mar 7
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