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Turning Trauma into Power: Marina Abramović on How Her Harrowing Childhood Became the Raw Material for Her Art
“You know you are an artist if you have to do art — it’s like breathing and you have no choice. Nothing should be able to stop you.”
How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life
“You have to learn to recognize your own depth.”
Consolation for Life’s Darkest Hours: 7 Unusual and Wonderful Books that Help Children Grieve and Make Sense of Death
From Japanese pop-up magic to Scandinavian storytelling to Maurice Sendak, a gentle primer on the messiness of mourning and the many faces and phases of grief.
Walter Benjamin on Finding Wisdom in the Age of Information and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”
A Decadent Decade of Design Matters: 10 Years of Intelligent and Inspiring Interviews with Creative Icons
Stimulating, ennobling, deeply human conversations with Maira Kalman, Seth Godin, Dani Shapiro, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Ware, Shepard Fairey, and more.
Young Delacroix on the Importance of Solitude in Creative Work and How to Resist Social Distractions
“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul… Seek solitude.”
Hurry Up and Wait: Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman’s Whimsical Children’s Book for Grownups about Presence in the Age of Productivity
“It feels so good to go someplace. Except when you want to stay right there where you are.”
In Defense of Boredom: 200 Years of Ideas on the Virtues of Not-Doing from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Bertrand Russell, Søren Kierkegaard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Susan Sontag, Adam Phillips, Renata Adler, and more.
Crowds and Power: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on the Four Attributes of Crowds and the Paradox of Why We Join Them
“Direction is essential for the continuing existence of the crowd… A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.”
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