James Victore came by the garage and interviewed me for his Burning Questions series. In the Show Your Work! spirit, he posted our interview unedited. Watch it here.
Interview with Unmistakable Creative
If you have an hour to kill, I had a nice chat with Srinivas Rao on his Unmistakable Creative podcast. Srinivas said listeners had been requesting me for a while, so I was more than happy to disappoint them be invited.
Among the many topics we discussed: why I found my best work after I left school and what one should to do with an audience once they show up.
Audio PlayerListen here. [53 minutes, MP3]
Interview with Reading Lives
I had a nice chat with Jeff O’Neal on Reading Lives, a “podcast with interesting people who love books.”
Audio PlayerWe talk about the endurance of physical book browsing, the difficulty of coming back to comics as an adult, being who you are at a young age, and much more.
Listen here. [50 minutes, MP3]
Powers of Two: A conversation about creativity with Joshua Wolf Shenk
Last weekend at the Texas Book Festival I had the pleasure of interviewing Joshua Wolf Shenk, the author of one of my favorite books of the year, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs. I had a hunch that we’d have a lot to talk about, so I recorded our discussion and edited it down (liberally) to the post below. Enjoy.
AK: Let’s start out with The Lone Genius Myth.
JWS: I argue in the book that the lone genius is a mythical creature. Which is not to say that we don’t require solitude and it’s not to say that we might not take sole ownership over our work as you and I both do — we don’t have anybody else’s name on the covers of our books. Yet, there are very often characters offstage who are not acknowledged.
Interview with Scratch Magazine
I had a nice conversation with Manjula Martin for the latest issue of Scratch, a digital magazine about writing and money. (They also used a blackout for the cover.) We talked about several topics, including self-promotion, selling out, and, of course, money:
Look, I do not have it figured out. I feel really good about my output up until this point. It’s been my dream to be able to stay at home and have a family and go out to my studio and do whatever I want. But I think the whiplash of it has been so quick that I’m still catching up with it.
It’s the imposter syndrome thing, where you think someone’s gonna knock on the door and take it all back.
So for me it always comes back to the daily practice. Having that bliss station set up and going to it and making your thing happen. Making sure you do that every day no matter what. Do the thing that feeds you, first. Then do the crazy business stuff.
Read the rest of the interview→
You can read the rest of the interview in the forthcoming book, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.
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