On wriggling through a creative life—with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.
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Is there creative power in self-loathing?
I love reading about the tricks that writers and artists play on themselves in order to get to work. That’s the “subtle maneuvers” idea behind this newsletter: that most of us have assembled (consciously or unconsciously) a range of habits,...
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My virtual coworking club reconvenes tomorrow
Quick reminder that Worm Zoom, my virtual coworking club, reconvenes this week, Monday–Friday, from 6–8am Pacific / 9–11am Eastern / 2–4pm UK time.
Reminder: Book Club meeting tomorrow
Join us in discussing A LONG GAME
Hi, everyone — Just a quick reminder that the next meeting of the Subtle Maneuvers Book Club will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK time. Join us on Zoom here:
Chaos and whim and me
“A poet’s livelihood is in his moods,” Jim Harrison wrote in a 1993 essay, and this week I’m feeling the truth and absurdity of that sentiment.
For a few months now, I’ve been quietly plotting to spring an announcement on you all, today, a...
The juice is in the gap
It’s been six weeks since our last Subtle Maneuvers Book Club meeting and yet I’m still thinking about Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story, and still trying to fully integrate some of the deeper, more mysterious ideas in this slend...
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