Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Ge

Description: Daily Rituals Women at Work by Mason Currey From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Brontë to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty female writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The much-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed and resoundingly fascinating Daily Rituals.Filled with the innovative, inspiring and wonderfully prolific accounts of some of the worlds best female creators, Daily Rituals Women at Work is the powerful and championing sequel to Mason Curreys first book, Daily Rituals.Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wore earmuffs as she worked to block out noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children swarming around her whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedroom with the sixty birds that inspired her work. Louisa May Alcott wrote so vigorously - skipping sleep and meals - that she had to learn to write with her left hand to give her cramped right hand a break.Filled with details of the large and small choices these women made, Daily Rituals Women at Work is about the day-to-day lives of some of the worlds most extraordinary creative minds who, whether Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, Nina Simone or Jane Campion, found the time and got to work.An admirably succinct portrait of some distinctly uncommon lives - Meryle Secrest Flap How do great female artists find the time and get to work? Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wore earmuffs as she worked to block out noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children swarming around her whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedroom with the sixty birds that inspired her work. From Isak Dinesen subsisting on oysters, champagne and amphetamines, to Isabel Allendes insistence that she begins each new book on 8 January, here are the working routines of over 140 brilliant female painters, composers, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and performers. Filled with details of the large and small choices these women made, these daily routines are a source of fascination and inspiration. Author Biography Mason Currey was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His first book, Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work was published in 2013. Curreys writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in Los Angeles. Review Utterly fascinating . . . This book is the ultimate retort to the flaneurs who dream about the novel/screenplay/painting they would create if only they had the time -- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to WorkI just cant recommend this book enough -- Lena Dunham on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to WorkA trove of entertaining anecdote and thought-provoking comparison -- Daily Telegraph, on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to WorkA chance to see what great lives look like when the triumphs, dramas, disruptions and divorces have been all but boiled away. It will fascinate anyone who wonders how a day might best be spent, especially those who have wondered of their artistic heroes, as a baffled Colette once did of George Sand: how the devil did they manage? -- Guardian, on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to WorkMason Currey has carefully compiled the daily habits and personal foibles of 161 great writers, artists, scientists and thinkers, including one who stood on his head to cure creative block. By the end of this book, our carpet-glue habit looks normal -- DBC Pierre, Guardian, on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to WorkA fascinating little book -- Financial Times on Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration and Get to Work Promotional From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Brontë to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty female writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work. Review Quote I just cant recommend this book enough Promotional "Headline" From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bront Details ISBN1509852859 Author Mason Currey Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2020 ISBN-10 1509852859 ISBN-13 9781509852857 Publication Date 2020-10-15 Pages 416 Language English Imprint Picador Subtitle How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work DEWEY 153.35 Short Title Daily Rituals: Women at Work Format Paperback UK Release Date 2020-10-15 Audience Age 18 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General AU Release Date 2020-12-23 NZ Release Date 2020-12-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131824482;

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