Bücher von Mason Currey

'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work.Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.

»So war es jede Woche: Kurz nach der Deadline rief Dorothy Parker in der Redaktion an und sagte, sie habe ihre Kolumne zwar fertig, aber komplett in den Sand gesetzt, und sie brauche noch eine Stunde. Erst dann setzte sie sich hin und begann mit der Arbeit.« Unterhaltsame und erstaunliche Miniaturen über: . Marlene Dietrich . Isabel Allende . Coco Chanel . Virginia Woolf . Zadie Smith . Hilary Mantel . Clara Schumann . Elena Ferrante . Sheila Heti . Miranda July . Cindy Sherman . Käthe Kollwitz . Doris Lessing und viele mehr.

Wie gestalten Künstler ihren Tag? Was kann man sich bei ihnen abschauen? Und was sollte man besser sein lassen?88 Alltagsstrategien von Schriftstellern, Komponisten, Malern, Filmemachern und anderen kreativen Berühmtheiten, in unterhaltsamen Miniaturen beschrieben von Mason Currey.www.musenkuesse.de

From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bronte 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.