Sitemap - 2020 - Subtle Maneuvers
Edna OâBrien on the âeminently masochistic exerciseâ 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: âLiving with art stops one wilting!â
Paul Mpagi Sepuya on resisting âforced productivityâ during the pandemic
What if you physically canât 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 writerâs block
Rei Kawakubo on the âenergy of angerâ
Carl Jung on the importance of taking a break
Your advice on creativity and envy
Ali Smithâs âquite lazyâ writing routine
Susan Chen on painting in a pandemic
Isaac Newton, backstabbing workaholic
Filmmaker Erin Lee Carrâs quarantine routine
John Ashberyâs writing process was the best writing process
Iris Murdoch on making your unconscious work for you
Ennio Morriconeâs âmysterious processâ
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 âa corner of oneâs ownâ
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's daily routine
James Baldwin on the role of the artist
Giuseppe Verdi could only compose in the country
Grace Jonesâs 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 âforce fieldâ
Tell me about your quarantine routine
Robert Lowell kept a double bed in his study
Anne Sexton, âsecret beatnikâ in the suburbs
Derek Walcott on the necessity of ritual
Was Leonardo da Vinci a procrastinator?
Joseph Haydn could not be idle
Sculptor Anne Truittâs retreat routine
Roberto Rossellini on his âabsolutely spontaneousâ filmmaking process
Judy Chicagoâs system for âpsychic privacyââplus, advice for a stuck writer
âSpiritually poopingâ: Kurt Vonnegut on his daily routine as a novelist/teacher