Well, when you put it that way.
There should be little as important to a successful creative than the very act of creating.
For all you tortured artists
When people ask why I became a writer, I tend to emphasize the era, in my mid-20s, when I turned off the television and became a more serious reader. I talk about the sentences of Saul Bellow and Lorrie Moore, how enraptured I was, how I wanted to emulate them. It makes for a nice story.
But it’s not the part of the story that really matters. What really matters, it seems to me now, is that I was bored with my job as a newspaper reporter and depressed. I was living in exile from my family and driving away the people I loved with an astonishing efficiency. What I needed was therapy.
-Steve Almond in the New York Times Magazine
oh, the mashup.
Ever since it was announced a couple days ago that Paramount was going to be working on a re-imagined Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer series, bits of the internet have been in an outrage as often happens over the news that Huck and Tom might be brought into the modern world fighting aliens or something.
