Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Daily Rituals : How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work - Mason Currey

Daily Rituals

How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By: Mason Currey

Paperback | 11 June 2020

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $36.99

$28.99

22%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.25 with

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

Benjamin 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.

About the Author

Mason Currey was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

His first book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work was published in 2013. Currey's writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in New York.

More in Biographies

Bread of Angels - Patti Smith

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
The Mushroom Tapes : Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial - Helen Garner
I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Art Work : On the Creative Life - Sally Mann

RRP $55.00

$42.75

22%
OFF
The Eagle and the Hart : The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - Helen Castor
Crick : A Mind in Motion - from DNA to the Brain - Matthew Cobb

RRP $65.00

$48.99

25%
OFF
Someone Like Me - Penny Lancaster

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
A Step To The Right - Tony Parkinson

RRP $39.95

$34.99

12%
OFF
I'm Not Mad (Anymore) : How not to lose it - Bron Lewis

RRP $36.99

$26.99

27%
OFF
In Love and Death : The Lost Notebook - Bert McCracken

RRP $99.99

$70.99

29%
OFF
Where It All Went Wrong : The case against John Howard - Amy Remeikis
The Buddha : Biography of a Myth - Donald S. Lopez

RRP $45.95

$35.99

22%
OFF
Grime : Documenting the scene's rise and reign - Roony Keefe

RRP $59.99

$45.75

24%
OFF
Working Girl : On Selling Art and Selling Sex - Sophia Giovannitti

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF