Archive for the “books” category
Fear & Art
by Eric on November 21, 2011
I’m hardly a stranger to uncertainty and self-doubt. So picking up a copy of David Bayles and Ted Orland’s slim volume Art & Fear wasn’t a difficult choice. I’ve just started but already the author’s have begun to catalogue many (…)
Keeping Their Attention
by Eric on September 12, 2010
From David Mamet’s new book Theatre, but applies equally to just about anything that involves an audience. The job of the dramatist is to get, and that of the actors and directors to keep, the asses in the seats. Period. (…)
The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp
by Eric on December 31, 2009
I just finished Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit, the follow-up to her successful 2005 book, The Creative Habit. Here are some of my favorite passages: “A great partnership is a lab where change happens every day.” “In any collaboration, no (…)