Sitemap - 2020 - Subtle Maneuvers
Edna O’Brien on the “eminently masochistic exercise” of making art
Sarah Kempa on making artwork with a day job (during a pandemic)
What if your ambition outstrips your talent?
Your advice on ambition, talent, and burnout
Austin Kleon on being creative when your kids are home allll day
Maria Lassnig: “Living with art stops one wilting!”
Paul Mpagi Sepuya on resisting “forced productivity” during the pandemic
What if you physically can’t follow a daily routine?
Creating a routine when no two days are alike
Hallie Bateman's guilt-free WFH routine
Edgar Allan Poe, procrastinator
Your advice for a people-pleaser
Joseph Conrad on a truly awful case of writer’s block
Rei Kawakubo on the “energy of anger”
Carl Jung on the importance of taking a break
Your advice on creativity and envy
Ali Smith’s “quite lazy” writing routine
Susan Chen on painting in a pandemic
Isaac Newton, backstabbing workaholic
Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr’s quarantine routine
John Ashbery’s writing process was the best writing process
Iris Murdoch on making your unconscious work for you
Ennio Morricone’s “mysterious process”
Getting away from yourself in a pandemic
Eileen Myles on writing in a pandemic
John Cage on music and mushrooms
Maxine Hong Kingston on finding “a corner of one’s own”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's daily routine
James Baldwin on the role of the artist
Giuseppe Verdi could only compose in the country
Grace Jones’s dressing-room necessities
How did you figure out what your "thing" is?
Angela Carter on the pleasures of distraction
Walker Evans had a hard time getting out of the house before noon
Audre Lorde's home-office “force field”
Tell me about your quarantine routine
Robert Lowell kept a double bed in his study
Anne Sexton, “secret beatnik” in the suburbs
Derek Walcott on the necessity of ritual
Was Leonardo da Vinci a procrastinator?
Joseph Haydn could not be idle
Sculptor Anne Truitt’s retreat routine
Roberto Rossellini on his ”absolutely spontaneous” filmmaking process
Judy Chicago’s system for “psychic privacy”—plus, advice for a stuck writer
“Spiritually pooping”: Kurt Vonnegut on his daily routine as a novelist/teacher