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Writing about how writers and artists work, in three books and a twice-monthly newsletter (masoncurrey.substack.com/)
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The best book on writing I’ve ever read

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By Mason Currey Verified
| Subtle Maneuvers
When Michael interviews a writer, it feels like psychoanalysis, but the writer is the analyst, and Michael the confessor, and it’s very relaxing because you sit and listen to him give this rich interpretive testimonial about your novel, and you find moments to intervene.
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How to move from doubt to confidence

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By Mason Currey Verified
| Subtle Maneuvers
Welcome to the 187th issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Last time, I shared a magnificent pep talk from the artist Sol LeWitt to the perpetually self-doubting sculptor Eva Hesse. This week: Some further thoughts on doubt inspired by a recent interview with the filmmaker Ira Sachs.
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The greatest pep talk in art history

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By Mason Currey Verified
| Subtle Maneuvers
Welcome to the 186th issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Today, after 458 mornings hosting Worm Zoom, I’m announcing some changes to my virtual coworking club starting in June. But first: a magnificent artist-to-artist pep talk that I never tire of reading. Eva Hesse, 1963 (Barbara Brown/Zeitgeist Films via the New York Times) In March 1965, the German-born American sculptor Eva Hesse wrote a letter to her friend and fellow artist Sol LeWitt, venting her doubts about her work and asking for advice.
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