How to Sustain a Creative Life: Insights from Eight Artists

In her Lit Hub essay, “On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice,” novelist Stacey D’Erasmo explores what keeps us alive in our art. Based on her newly released book, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry, (Graywolf Press) D’Erasmo discusses her interviews with older artists from various fields and what she learned from them about sustaining a life of art. From dancers to landscape architects, D’Erasmo’s interviews include Cecilia Vicuña, Valda Setterfield, Samuel R. Delany, Amy Sillman, Darrel Morrison, Tania Léon, Blair Brown, and Steve Earle. The Lit Hub article and the book it draws from are deeply valuable to anyone looking to sustain a lifetime of creativity.

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