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The Art of Practical Wisdom

The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world.

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Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery

The lost art of learning to stand “where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”

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Charles Dickens on Grief and How to Heal a Mourning Heart

“The disturbed mind and affections, like the tossed sea, seldom calm without an intervening time of confusion and trouble.”

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2013’s Best Books on Writing and Creativity

Timeless wisdom and practical advice on the pleasures and perils of the written word and the creative life.

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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

“I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.”

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33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

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The Six Motives of Creativity: Mary Gaitskill on Why Writers Write

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

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Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far: Sagmeister’s Typographic Maxims on Life, Updated

Lived wisdom in living lettering.

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The Geography of Great Literature, in Hand-Lettered Typography

Twain, Didion, Thoreau, White, McCarthy, Eugenides.

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David Bowie’s Formative Reading List of 75 Favorite Books

From poetry to history to theory of mind, with plenty of fiction and a few magazines for good measure.

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Search results for “joan didion”

The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world.

The lost art of learning to stand “where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”

“The disturbed mind and affections, like the tossed sea, seldom calm without an intervening time of confusion and trouble.”

Timeless wisdom and practical advice on the pleasures and perils of the written word and the creative life.

“I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.”

Books that help us make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

Lived wisdom in living lettering.

Twain, Didion, Thoreau, White, McCarthy, Eugenides.

From poetry to history to theory of mind, with plenty of fiction and a few magazines for good measure.

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