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Three tales of creative slowness
“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”
Mason Currey
Apr 3
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Robert Walser’s day jobs
And some news: I turned in my book draft!
Mason Currey
Feb 6
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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, 2022
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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, 2022
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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, 2022
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Three tales of creative incompetence
Plus: Advice on sharing your work
Mason Currey
Mar 7, 2022
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Sybille Bedford’s squandered years
And their resolution!
Mason Currey
Sep 13, 2021
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Anthony Burgess could write a novel in four weeks
“I write fast. So what?”
Mason Currey
Feb 8, 2021
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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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Happy birthday, Renata Adler
"I have met very few writers who write at all."
Mason Currey
Oct 19, 2020
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Joseph Conrad on a truly awful case of writer’s block
“I sit down for eight hours every day—and the sitting down is all.”
Mason Currey
Sep 21, 2020
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Ali Smith’s "quite lazy" writing routine
"I spend lots of time staring into space and wandering around the room."
Mason Currey
Aug 24, 2020
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