Daily Rituals:
How Artists Work
On the routines and working habits of 161 inspired minds, from Beethoven to Donald Barthelme, Kafka to Georgia O’Keeffe
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013
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“What recommends this compendium of mini-biographies is its revelation of the infinite variety, unpredictable zaniness and inimitability of artists’ routines.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“An encouraging read for creative types, and a delightful peek into that world for the rest of us.”
—NPR’s Morning Edition
“I just can’t recommend this book enough.”
—Lena Dunham
Selected for NPR’s Best Books of 2013, the Tim Ferriss Book Club, and The Millions 2014 Year in Reading
Briefly noted in the New Yorker and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Believer, Chicago Tribune, NPR Books, USA Today, the Telegraph, and Literary Review
Additional press in the Guardian, the New York Times Magazine, New York, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, London Review of Books, Brain Pickings, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Esquire, Mental Floss, Design*Sponge, Remodelista, and The Strategist
Out now: A follow-up volume on the day-to-day working lives of 143 brilliant women
UK Edition from Picador
“Utterly fascinating”
—Sunday Times
“A trove of entertaining anecdote and thought-provoking comparison”
—The Telegraph
“A delightful book, full of quirks and oddities”
—Literary Review
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