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Longing for a Crash
On “vomit drafts” and other fantasies—plus, our next Book Club pick
 • Mason Currey
Get the Money!
On Helen DeWitt, literary funding, and difficult weirdo artists
 • Mason Currey
When writing your book takes thirty-eight years (and counting)
Solvej Balle’s very gradual creative process. Plus: Announcing the Subtle Maneuvers Book Club—and a workshop for the Scrivener-curious
 • Mason Currey
A touching story of writer-to-writer support
“It was only then that he ceased to look upon his novels as youthful mistakes.”
 • Mason Currey
Robert Plunket on the “big secret” of making art
“Every artist does it.”
 • Mason Currey
Françoise Sagan on the power of laziness
A timely reminder from the author of Bonjour Tristesse
 • Mason Currey
Gary Indiana’s controlled uncontrol
The late writer on stumbling through projects, putting things in proximity to one another, and how not to write about Warhol
 • Mason Currey
Kathy Acker was against creativity
“I set up this task, this nutty task basically, and I’d do it!”
 • Mason Currey
Jane Bowles was vulnerable and strong
“I’ve got to do it my way and my way is more difficult than yours.”
 • Mason Currey
Clarice Lispector’s paradoxical certainties
“What gets in the way of writing is having to use words.”
 • Mason Currey
Robert Walser’s day jobs
And some news: I turned in my book draft!
 • Mason Currey
Tove Jansson’s summer days
“Tooti and I wake up early, always simultaneously though we sleep in separate beds.”
 • Mason Currey
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