My Go Creative! books are out of commission at the moment (except for the F-R-E-E-Writing Notebook, still available on Amazon, which doesn’t count as a book). I’m in talks with a trade publisher to see if a print-only deal, in different territories, might be possible.
I have mixed feelings and we’ll see.
In the meantime, I thought I’d give you a reading list of great books about creative living that might inspire and delight you.
And back soon with all the news from Sligo: if you were there, send me your photos. I’m putting together an album.
Go Creative! Reading List
Joseph Brodsky: Six Rules for Winning at the Game of Life (University of Michigan, 1988),
Teresita Fernandez Blind Landscape on what it really means to be an artist
Seamus Heaney: On mothering beginnings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996) and doing good in the world (University of Pennsylvania, 2000)
Kurt Vonnegut: If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?
Debbie Millman: Fail Safe, on giving yourself safety so you can take risks
Toni Morrison: On the importance of owning your own story
George Saunders: On regrets and the importance of kindness
Patti Smith: On Owning People Power and on Growing Up & Living As Peter Pan
David Foster Wallace: This Is Water (audio) (pdf: Kenyon College, 2005).
Bill Watterson on fleeing the real world in favour of creative integrity: (Kenyon College, 1990)
(My thanks to Maria Popova’s wonderful Brain Pickings for first alerting me to some of the links on this list)