video: AuthorViews: Susannah Breslin The author talks about her book, “You’re a Bad Man Aren’t You?” People “living on the edge” – the subject of her book – can be creatively inspiring, and help illuminate the multiple aspects of our own selves and psyches, especially those we may tend to suppress in order to be [...]

It’s not enough to be weird “What is it that makes a story compelling? It’s enough to grab our interest that something weird happens. But what we really want is to be transformed by what we hear. “We want something wonderful to happen. A lot of people just stop at the weird and don’t quite [...]

“The outside world sees literature and politics as two separate things. I don’t. “But I think the reason that the establishments have always feared writers, the reason that writers are persecuted or put into jail, is because they have that weapon of clarity, and when they choose to use it, it’s deadly.” Arundhati Roy [laweekly.com [...]

When we approach that blank canvas, empty stage or notebook paper in a state of curiousity, we’re truly opening the door to the muse – to our “inner artist”, our “higher power” and the creative flow of the universe. In “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci“, Michael Gelb tells us just how curious Leonardo [...]