Five Things I've Learned
Five Things I’ve Learned is a hand-made, eclectic collection of classes from creative thinkers and artists leaders we admire.
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Andre Dubus III - The Absolute Necessity of Revision
Adrian Matejka - Building a Book
Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner - What It Takes to Be an Authorprenuer
Mason Currey - Subtly Maneuvering the Creative Process
Rebecca Makkai - Writing While Parenting
Donald J. Robertson - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety
Steven Conn - America’s Urban-Rural Divide – It’s the Geography Stupid
Alissa Wilkinson - What Makes a Review Great
Benjamin Dreyer - Being Your Own Best Editor
Will Hermes - Writing a Life Story
Alissa Wilkinson - The Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion
Kaveh Akbar - Sacred Poetics
MT Connolly - How To Better Navigate Aging
Maurice Carlos Ruffin - Too Late about Publishing My First Book
Sarah Fay - Making a Living as a Writer Today
Adam Gopnik - …Five Things I’ve Learned
Will Hermes - Writing about Music and Musicians
Maggie Smith - Creativity – During Times of Upheaval
Daniel Handler - Creativity – That Turn Out To Be Wrong
Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Creativity – by Writing Through Crisis
Victoria Chang - Creativity – by Being an Outsider
Amber Tamblyn - Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art
Ann Hood - Writing Memoir
Jane Hirshfield - Poems as Fields of Discovery
Michael Ruhlman - Writing, By Writing about Food
Matthew Specktor - Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction
Matthew Zapruder - Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos
Joe Randazzo - Getting to the Best Idea, from My Time Leading The Onion
Rebecca Makkai - Grasping Point of View – on the Page and in the World
Danté Stewart - The Power of Narrative