Reads tagged with “out of print”
Petunia, I Love You: A Forgotten 1965 Children’s Book Treasure
A sweet and irreverent reminder that kindness is the most potent antidote to evil.
Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works
“In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding.”
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
Barbara Walters on Gossip
“You’re never just a spectator: unless you put a stop to it, you’re a participant.”
A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being
How to harness the uniquely human power of “consciousness recoiling upon itself.”
Legendary Composer Aaron Copland on the Conditions of Creativity, Emotion vs. Intellect, and the Trap of Public Opinion
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”
Maurice Sendak’s Rare, Sensual Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Greatest Commercial Failure and Most Personally Beloved Book
“The strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.”
John W. Gardner on What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth
“Our fear of failure … assures the progressive narrowing of the personality.”
Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Female vs. Male Creativity, Gender in Leadership, Equitable Parenting, and Why Women Make Better Scientists
“In the long run it is the complex interplay of different capacities, feminine and masculine, that protects the humanity of human beings.”
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