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In the Atelier Answering 10 Questions About Atelier26 Books & Small PublishingANSWERING 10 QUESTIONS ABOUT ATELIER26 BOOKS & SMALL PUBLISHING: Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham was recently invited to respond to 10 questions about independent publishing from a group of students at a distinguished private college. What are the advantages, for a writer, in publishing with a small press rather than a mainstream publisher? Besides size, what differentiates a small press from a larger house? What made you want to start Atelier26? How do you balance your work as a writer and your work as a publisher? In this recording, Cunningham gives open and thoughtful replies to these questions and more. You won't often...

2023-04-0338 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Ann StinsonATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER ANN STINSON: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome!

2023-03-2712 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Filmmaker & Pixar Screenwriter Jason HeadleyATELIER VISIT WITH FILMMAKER & PIXAR SCREENWRITER JASON HEADLEY: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you...

2023-03-2016 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Filmmaker Brian PadianATELIER VISIT WITH FILMMAKER BRIAN PADIAN: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome!

2023-03-1313 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Kristen Millares YoungATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're...

2023-03-0615 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Bess WinterATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER BESS WINTER: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome!

2023-02-2708 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Woody SkinnerATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER WOODY SKINNER: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome!

2023-02-2011 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Harriet Scott ChessmanATELIER VISIT WITH HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome!

2023-02-1313 min

In the Atelier ATELIER VISIT: Writer Amy Lee LillardATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER AMY LEE LILLARD: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're...

2023-02-0613 min

In the Atelier ATELIER TALK, Ep. 1: Are You Serious?ATELIER TALK, EP. 1: ARE YOU SERIOUS? -- David R. Roth is the author of the novel The Femme Fatale Hypothesis (Regal House Publishing, 2021). His stories are set in or shaped by life in the small Delaware River town in which he has lived for over three decades. M. Allen Cunningham is the author, most recently, of the novel Q&A (Regal House Publishing, 2021) and the producer and host of In the Atelier and Thoreau's Leaves: the Thoreau Podcast. He teaches creative writing at Portland State University and elsewhere. The springboard for this Atelier Talk is the first question in...

2022-12-0435 min

In the Atelier Atelier Special: The Sky at Her BackATELIER SPECIAL: THE SKY AT HER BACK -- M. Allen Cunningham announces a special workshop opportunity and reads his short story "The Sky at Her Back," which first appeared in Issue 10 of Catamaran Magazine. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2022-06-1011 min

In the Atelier Why It's Desirable to Be Eccentric, with JS MillWHY IT'S DESIRABLE TO BE ECCENTRIC: "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." In 1859 the great English thinker John Stuart Mill published, in Chapter Three of his treatise On Liberty, one of history’s most cogent essays on the subject of Individuality, originality, genius, and eccentricity. To Mill’s view, mass opinion (what we might call “mass culture” these days), is an undeniable blight to individuality, and therefore directly threatens freedoms civic and intellectual, cultural, and democratic. While explicitly political, Mill’s argument reaches down to the foundations of human nature and culture, articulating many of th...

2022-05-1821 min

In the Atelier Please Prove You Are Not a RobotPLEASE PROVE YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT: You haven't posted in a while. Say, "OK, Google." Everyone's watching. (Recorded Sept. 2019, Brooklyn NY) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2022-05-1105 min

In the Atelier Soul School, with John KeatsSOUL SCHOOL, WITH JOHN KEATS: "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is, to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?" John Keats is saying here what Rilke put another way in 1904: "Let life happen to you. Believe me, life is in the right, always." Mentioned in this episode: John Keats; Shakespeare; Christianity; Rilke Music: "Another Green World" by Loyla; "Papyrus" by Kyle Preston; "Ballo in Casa Capuleti" by Bottega Baltazar. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) Episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this...

2022-05-0408 min

In the Atelier About DiscouragementABOUT DISCOURAGEMENT: Artists and writers, at some point (or several points) you're going to receive the message that your work is insignificant. You're going to wonder what use there is in continuing to do and share your work. It's unlikely that you will escape this unpleasantness. But when it arrives, remember that almost nobody escapes it -- that you've come to a new threshold. (This is a bonus Installment of IN THE ATELIER. Check out our longer episodes too.) Music: "For the Broken Hearted" by Yehezkel Raz (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist...

2022-04-2704 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Ann StinsonATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER ANN STINSON: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Ann Stinson is the author of the memoir The Ground at My Feet: Sustaining a Family a...

2022-04-1712 min

In the Atelier Opportunity & InspirationOPPORTUNITY & INSPIRATION: A famous author's invitation leads to a lesson about opportunity and the unexpected forms inspiration can take. Mentioned in this episode: Denis Johnson; Johnson's "Jesus' Son"; Johnson's "Tree of Smoke"; National Book Award. Music: "Anthem of a Quirky Hipster" by Rex Banner; "Lemonade" by Shtriker Big Band; "The Beat of the Land" by Assaf Ayalon (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2021-12-0512 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Filmmaker & Pixar Writer Jason HeadleyATELIER VISIT WITH FILMMAKER & PIXAR WRITER JASON HEADLEY: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Jason Headley is the writer and director of the feature film A Bad...

2021-07-0316 min

In the Atelier M. Allen Cunningham on the Broads & Books PodcastM. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM ON THE BROADS & BOOKS PODCAST: In the Atelier is going from weekly to occasional, but don't worry: there's lots of good listening still ahead. To make sure you hear about it whenever a new installment hits the podwaves, sign up for the Atelier26 newsletter at Atelier26Books.com. For today’s installment: a special from Broads and Books, the funny and feminist book podcast whose hosts love sharing books as much as they love sharing embarrassing stories and crackpot business ideas. Hosted by Amy and Erin, both voracious readers, Broads and Books is some of the most re...

2021-06-0256 min

In the Atelier Atelier Special: You, Me, and the Screen Between (An Elegy)ATELIER SPECIAL: YOU, ME, AND THE SCREEN BETWEEN (AN ELEGY) -- A novelist doesn't have to write about the here and now in order to be writing about the here and now. In this special installment of In the Atelier: a new essay by M. Allen Cunningham about how today's civic breakdowns are rooted in a pandemic of screen-addiction that goes back to a misunderstood chapter of American history. Cunningham's new novel Q&A reimagines those historic events in light of our own time. You can read Cunningham's essay in full at: medium.com/@M_A_Cunningham

2021-04-2128 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Bess WinterATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER BESS WINTER: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Bess Winter's debut short story collection, Machines of Another Era, appeared from Gold Wake Press...

2021-04-0710 min

In the Atelier Why It's Desirable to Be EccentricWHY IT'S DESIRABLE TO BE ECCENTRIC: "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." In 1859 the great English thinker John Stuart Mill published, in Chapter Three of his treatise On Liberty, one of history’s most cogent essays on the subject of Individuality, originality, genius, and eccentricity. To Mill’s view, mass opinion (what we might call “mass culture” these days), is an undeniable blight to individuality, and therefore directly threatens freedoms civic and intellectual, cultural, and democratic. While explicitly political, Mill’s argument reaches down to the foundations of human nature and culture, articulating many of th...

2021-03-3121 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Amy Lee LillardATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER AMY LEE LILLARD: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Today: award-winning fiction writer Amy Lee Lillard at home in Des Moines, Iowa. Lillard's debut...

2021-03-2412 min

In the Atelier About Discouragement (Bonus Installment)ABOUT DISCOURAGEMENT: Artists and writers, at some point (or several points) you're going to receive the message that your work is insignificant. You're going to wonder what use there is in continuing to do and share your work. It's unlikely that you will escape this unpleasantness. But when it arrives, remember that almost nobody escapes it -- that you've come to a new threshold. This is a bonus Installment of IN THE ATELIER. Check out our longer episodes too. IN THE ATELIER is produced by the award-winning literary publisher Atelier26 Books and hosted by M. Allen Cunningham. www.Atelier26Books...

2021-03-2104 min

In the Atelier The Value of TravelTHE VALUE OF TRAVEL: Reflections on travel and inspiration, on travel and parenting, on travel and expense, and on travel as a personal, creative, and maybe even moral responsibility. Mentioned in this episode: where ideas come from; spurring inspiration; child-rearing; American passport holders; innumerable (and numerable) benefits of travel; the "go while you're young" mindset; travel and affordability; travel as excessive expense; prioritizing travel; serendipity; artists on national currency; small cultural differences; Adam Gopnick; Gopnick's Paris to the Moon; unquantifiable value; bringing a child abroad. Music: "Mood" by We Are the Good; "Flight of the Inner Bird" by Sivan...

2021-03-1716 min

In the Atelier IN THE ATELIER: your weekly creativity podcastProduced by Atelier26 Books, hosted by M. Allen Cunningham --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2021-03-1500 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Woody SkinnerATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER WOODY SKINNER: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Woody Skinner's debut short story collection, A Thousand Distant Radios, was published by Atelier26 Books and...

2021-03-1011 min

In the Atelier It Is Natural to Need HelpIT IS NATURAL TO NEED HELP: Once upon a time I relished the idea of “making it” on my own. I didn’t foresee the hazards. Mentioned in this episode: Being a lone wolf; acting versus writing; self-reliance; the rat race; grants and fellowships; Malcolm Gladwell; Gladwell's "Outliers"; Thornton Wilder; meritocracy; Alain de Botton; Botton's "Status Anxiety"; Andrew Carnegie; success myths; moral debts; editors Music: "Killing Time" by Stanley Gurvich; "Drift" by Be Still the Earth (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA Archives. --- Support this podcast: https...

2021-03-0310 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Filmmaker Brian PadianATELIER VISIT WITH FILMMAKER BRIAN PADIAN: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Brian Padian is the writer/director of the award-winning web series Microagressions, which played at NYC...

2021-02-2413 min

In the Atelier Soul School (with John Keats)SOUL SCHOOL WITH JOHN KEATS: The English poet John Keats died unknown to the world at age twenty-five. The odds were against him from the start. Today his poetic mastery is often cited as being second only to Shakespeare. In this episode we look at a letter Keats wrote in 1819, in which he called the world "the vale of Soul-Making." Mentioned in this episode: John Keats; Shakespeare; Christianity; Rilke Music: "Another Green World" by Loyla; "Papyrus" by Kyle Preston; "Ballo in Casa Capuleti" by Bottega Baltazar. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) E...

2021-02-1708 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Harriet Scott ChessmanATELIER VISIT WITH HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Harriet Scott Chessman has published two novels with Atelier26 Books: The Beauty of Ordinary Things and...

2021-02-1013 min

In the Atelier What Would Leonard Cohen Do?WHAT WOULD LEONARD COHEN DO? : If you’re a hardworking creative soul striving to continue doing the work of the expressive imagination, striving to honor an authentic vision that resists the forces of market optimization, you could do a lot worse than immerse yourself in Leonard Cohen’s corpus and give this question your consideration: What would Leonard do? Mentioned in this episode: Leonard Cohen; Cohen's "Hallelujah"; Songs of Leonard Cohen; Cohen's 1963 debut novel The Favorite Game; CBC Television; Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers; Cohen's performance style; Bob Dylan; Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat"; Zen; Mount Baldy; Leonard Cohen world tour; skipping at a...

2021-02-0319 min

In the Atelier Loon CheckersLOON CHECKERS, from THOREAU'S LEAVES -- An October day in a boat on Walden, and "a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon." (From Walden, "Brute Neighbors") Loon sounds by Andrew Spencer, XC 189383 (accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/189383); and Todd Wilson, XC103421 (accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/103421). Music: "Love You" by Yehezkel Raz; "Revelations" by Tristan Barton (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) Hear more from Thoreau's Leaves at anchor.fm/thoreausleaves --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod...

2021-01-2708 min

In the Atelier Why Stories MatterWHY STORIES MATTER: Thoughts about the questions our most enduring stories ask and the effects these stories achieve. Mentioned in this episode: Wendell Berry; Northern California; Mount Diablo; The Green Age of Asher Witherow; John Steinbeck; Steinbeck's East of Eden; Salinas, California; regionalism; cynical critics; Nobel Prize; Book of Genesis; Barry Lopez; mythology; Wallace Stegner; Stegner's "The Sense of Place"; Carl Jung; Harold Bloom; Bloom's "Anxiety of Influence." Music: "Unplanned Run" by Stanley Gurvich; "Fall" by ANBR; "King of Mandol" by Swirling Ship (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) ...

2021-01-2011 min

In the Atelier What Resists Us Helps UsWHAT RESISTS US HELPS US: Imposed limitation can galvanize the imagination. So here's to "salutary antagonisms!" Mentioned in this episode: Ethan Canin; Canin's "Emperor of the Air"; Canin's short story, "Accountant"; Annie Proulx; John Dewey; Dewey's "Art As Experience" (1934); Katherine Anne Porter; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety" Music: "Puddles" by Stanley Gurvitch; "Continent" by ANBR; "Sparkle" by Maya Isac; "Vuelta al Sol" by Tomas Novoa; "Befun" by Befun (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives. ...

2021-01-1313 min

In the Atelier Watch Out for WisdomWATCH OUT FOR WISDOM: In matters of art, wisdom is rarely conventional. Mentioned in this episode: Anthony Minghella; American movies; screenplays; three-act structure; Hollywood; formulas; plot; revision; Agnes Jaoui; Ingmar Bergman; Nicole Holofcener; Noah Baumbach; Wim Wenders; Minghella's "The English Patient"; Henry James; B.S.-detector; self-reliance; New York Times; William T. Vollman; movie deal. Music: "SnowJah" by Peter Spacey; "Homemade Apple Pie" by Jamie Bathgate; "Likes" by Swirling Ship (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show...

2021-01-0610 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Kristen Millares YoungATELIER VISIT: WRITER KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Kristen Millares Young's debut novel, Subduction (Red Hen Press) was named a Finalist for two International L...

2020-12-3016 min

In the Atelier Atelier Special: In Ludwig's RoomATELIER SPECIAL: IN LUDWIG'S ROOM -- Atelier Specials feature original creative content including essays, fiction, and excerpts. Today: In honor of the 250th birth-year of Ludwig Van Beethoven, M. Allen Cunningham's account of a visit to Beethoven's rooms in Vienna, a mere two centuries after the composer steps out. Mentioned in this episode: Vienna; University of Vienna; the Ringstrasse; Vienna ramparts; the Votivkirche; Beethoven's 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th symphonies; Beethoven's Rasumowsky Quartets; Beethoven's opera "Fidelio"; office workers; dreamers; ghosts; work and time; what we give our attention to. Music: Beethoven! (and "Hands of Time" by Narrow Skies, used courtesy...

2020-12-2310 min

In the Atelier John Ruskin on Freedom and ImperfectionJOHN RUSKIN ON FREEDOM & IMPERFECTION: Throughout the whole second half of the nineteenth century "to read [John] Ruskin was accepted as proof of the possession of a soul" (as art historian Kenneth Clark put it). And Ruskin's "The Stones of Venice" is a work of huge compassion, intelligence, and beauty that still has a great deal to say to artists. "No good work whatever can be perfect," says Ruskin, "for no great [person] ever stops working till [they have] reached [their] point of failure ... To banish imperfection is to destroy expression." Mentioned in this episode: John Ruskin; Ruskin's The Stones...

2020-12-1615 min

2020-12-0908 min

In the Atelier What Am I Doing With My Life?WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE? : Two kinds of doubt and how to use them. Mentioned in this episode: John Gardner; Gardner's "On Becoming a Novelist"; gap analysis; Henry James; James's "The Middle Years"; James's notebooks; Cynthia Ozick; prayer; intuition. Music: "Moonlight Call" by Racoon Racoon; "Purple Maze" by Lalinea; "Released" by Royal Nature; "Guide Your Wild Eyes" by Giants and Pilgrims (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This installment reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-12-0209 min

In the Atelier A Song for the Unsung (Bonus Episode)A SONG FOR THE UNSUNG: Autumn is traditionally the season of "big books" -- books by the established heavy-hitters and the foreordained bestsellers among hot debuts. But in the midst of this season (and with Thanksgiving upon us), here's a tribute of gratitude to those who keep the literary world turning and the art-makers making. Mentioned in this episode: small books; unreviewed, unbought, and unawarded authors and poets; the disappearing midlist; "literary disappointments"; Bookscan; readers; commonplace books; editors; sales conferences; publishers; authors who help; writers who teach; experimentation; literary magazines; independent bookstores; the unconnected, unincluded, and uninvited best of the...

2020-11-2504 min

In the Atelier There's a Crowd on My DeskTHERE'S A CROWD ON MY DESK: A word for creative solitude amid the hive life of screens. Mentioned in this episode: John Stuart Mill; Michel de Montaigne; Henry David Thoreau; Neil Postman; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Lee Siegel's Against the Machine; Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; John Updike; The Paris Review; Sven Birkerts' The Gutenberg Elegies; William Shakespeare's King Lear; Zadie Smith; J.D. Salinger; The Chronicle of Higher Education; William Deresiewicz. Music: "Urban Drummers" by Mike Kirin; "Over and Over" by Stanley Gurvich; "Shiver" by Borrtex; "Heavens Anthem" by Skygaze; "Soft Awakening" by John Gegelman; "B...

2020-11-1820 min

In the Atelier Denis Johnson, Fame, & the 2,000-Page RuleDENIS JOHNSON, FAME, & THE 2,000-PAGE RULE: A story of an invitation received many years ago from legendary author Denis Johnson, and lessons learned about opportunity and the unexpected forms inspiration can take. Mentioned in this episode: Johnson's "Jesus' Son"; Johnson's "Tree of Smoke"; National Book Award. Music: "Anthem of a Quirky Hipster" by Rex Banner; "Lemonade" by Shtriker Big Band; "The Beat of the Land" by Assaf Ayalon (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist). This episode reprised from the ITA Archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod...

2020-11-1112 min

In the Atelier In the Absence of YesIN THE ABSENCE OF YES: This essay, which first appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine and can be found in The Honorable Obscurity Handbook from Atelier26 Books, presents thoughts on a subject all too familiar to every writer: rejection. Believing in the worth of what you've produced is no easy thing. And deserving work is all too often passed over in sluice tides of manila envelopes. All that matters is what you're committed to. Mentioned in this episode: Wallace Stegner; New York Times; Henry James; Andre Dubus; Gustave Flaubert Music in this episode: "Door Knob" by Egon Stone; "Petrolchimica2" by Bottega...

2020-11-0414 min

In the Atelier Atelier Special: Let Us Praise the Public LibraryATELIER SPECIAL: LET US PRAISE THE PUBLIC LIBRARY -- Atelier Specials feature original creative content including essays, fiction, and excerpts. Today: an essay by M. Allen Cunningham, slightly abridged. "Let Us Praise the Public Library" was originally published as a special 3-part series in The Oregonian. You can read the complete essay at medium.com/@M_A_Cunningham. Mentioned in this episode: Portland, Oregon; Multnomah County Library; Victor Hugo; Charles Dickens; Mark Twain; Herodotus; J.M. Whistler; Charles Kingsley; Jorge Luis Borges; Toni Morrison; John Steinbeck; the Library of Alexandria; Der Spiegel; Virginia Quarterly Review; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; Aldus Manutius...

2020-10-2815 min

In the Atelier About Discouragement (Bonus Installment)ABOUT DISCOURAGEMENT: Artists and writers, at some point (or several points) you're going to receive the message that your work is insignificant. You're going to wonder what use there is in continuing to do and share your work. It's unlikely that you will escape this unpleasantness. But when it arrives, remember that almost nobody escapes it -- that you've come to a new threshold. (This is a bonus Installment of IN THE ATELIER. Check out our longer episodes too.) Music: "For the Broken Hearted" by Yehezkel Raz (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) ...

2020-10-2104 min

In the Atelier Surrendering to ProcessSURRENDERING TO PROCESS: Artist Andy Goldsworthy strives to know and understand stone -- and that's no straightforward task. Mentioned in this episode: "Rivers and Tides" (2001 documentary film). Music: "Hand in the Jar" by Rodello's Machine (used by courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-10-2109 min

In the Atelier Working Without WorkingWORKING WITHOUT WORKING: What really takes discipline? Not working. "Working without Working," appeared in slightly different form in Poets & Writers magazine and can be read in The Honorable Obscurity Handbook from Atelier26 Books. Mentioned in this episode: W.H. Auden; Saul Bellow; Joan Didion; E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"; Annie Dillard; Dillard's "A Writing Life"; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Andre Dubus; Henry James; T.S. Eliot; Zadie Smith; Smith's "Changing My Mind" Music: "Possible Light" by Ziv Moran; "Spain" by Dan Pundak; "Fragments" by Borrtex; "Mindplay (instrumental)" by Roza; "The World Inside" by Rodello's Machine (All...

2020-10-1413 min

In the Atelier Getting in the Creative HabitGETTING IN THE CREATIVE HABIT: "There's a difference," writes Twyla Tharp, "between a work's beginning and starting to work." This episode shares thoughts on Tharp's book The Creative Habit. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) This episode, reprised from the ITA archives, was originally titled The World According to Tharp. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-10-0708 min

In the Atelier The Barn of FortuneTHE BARN OF FORTUNE: Thoughts on happiness, the freedom to make art, and why the costs of some financial benefits are way too high. Mentioned in this episode: making a living; Bay Area housing; overpriced apartments. Music: (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archivesm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-09-3011 min

In the Atelier Art as War and HeresyART AS WAR & HERESY: Two books to console and inspire creative people. Mentioned in this episode: "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield; "True & False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor" by David Mamet; "Art As Experience" by John Dewey; "What Resists Us Helps Us" by In the Atelier. Music: "My Own Back" by Katrina Stone; "Wild" and "Northern Saints" by Swirling Ship; "Arcade" by Generation Lost (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-09-2310 min

In the Atelier A Good Way to LoseA GOOD WAY TO LOSE: "Your application was not successful." These words don't always mean what we might think they do. Mentioned in this episode: application essay; statement of purpose; economic recession; layoffs. Music: "Burn" by Kut; "Hypernova" by Theevs; "See Me Fly (instrumental)" by Roza; "On the Way" by Ian Post (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) This episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-09-1609 min

In the Atelier Measures of SuccessMEASURES OF SUCCESS: How does a writer know whether or not they are "a Success"? Mentioned in this episode: Netflix; Dreamworks; Carnegie Hall; New York Times Bestseller list; midlist author; awkward party conversations; shelving at Barnes & Noble; being on Oprah. Music: "Ohio" by Low Light; "Second Smile" by LMOP; "Rising Up" by OFRIN; "Once and For All" by Ian Post (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) Episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-09-0909 min

2020-09-0210 min

In the Atelier Atelier Special: Variations on a BeginningATELIER SPECIAL: VARIATIONS ON A BEGINNING -- Atelier Specials feature original creative content including essays, fiction, and excerpts. For today's inaugural Atelier Special: an autobiographical essay by M. Allen Cunningham, slightly abridged. "Variations on a Beginning" was originally published in The Timberline Review (issue 3, summer/fall 2016). You can read the complete essay at medium.com/@M_A_Cunningham. Mentioned in this episode: Monterey Bay; guns; Edmond Jabes; selling for writers; narrative; secrets; Jacques Derrida; Italo Calvino; biblical story of Samuel; Zen Master Shunriyu Suzuki Roshi; Henry James. (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with...

2020-08-2617 min

2020-08-1920 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Woody SkinnerATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER WOODY SKINNER: Atelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them.Woody Skinner's debut short story collection, A Thousand Distant Radios, was published by...

2020-08-1211 min

In the Atelier Time for EverythingTIME FOR EVERYTHING: In 1825, the great English essayist Charles Lamb wrote about his unexpected retirement and his struggles adapting to his sudden overabundance of time. In some ways, this could not be more relevant right now. Mentioned in this episode: Romantic Poets; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lamb's "The Superannuated Man"; East India Company; office life; drudgery; desk job; retirement; vacation time; leisure; depression; eternity; slowness; inactivity; thoughtfulness; freedom. Music: "Hands of Time" by Narrow Skies; "Fall" by ANBR; "Sails" by Rodello's Machine (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement...

2020-08-0514 min

In the Atelier Ghosts & TeachersInspiration is often an assertive act -- simply waiting around for it doesn't guarantee its arrival. Go forth and talk to ghosts. Mentioned in this episode: Concord, Massachusetts; public library; Henry David Thoreau; Sophia Thoreau; Thoreau's "Walking"; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ticknor & Fields; John Guare; Thornton Wilder; Wilder's "Our Town"; William Wordsworth; Tintern Abbey; Prague; Rilke; Kafka; Glen Ellen, California; Jack London; London's "The Call of the Wild"; American Civil War; Walt Whitman; Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Music: "Family" by Josh Leake; "The Art of Loneliness" by ANBR; "La Stanza di Nelson 2" by Bottega Baltazar; "On the Trail" by Cameron Mackay (A...

2020-07-2913 min

In the Atelier Art Awakens UsThoughts about an inspiring film that will awaken you to your own senses. Mentioned in this episode: Rainer Maria Rilke; Rilke's Duino Elegies; art experiences; 2008 Academy Awards; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Jean Dominique Bauby; Julian Schnabel. Music: "Chasing the Sun" by Narrow Skies; "I'll Understand" by Roza (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) Reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-07-2210 min

In the Atelier Defending the ImaginationAs a person is, so they see. One day the English mystic, poet, and painter William Blake sat down to pen a lively document in defense of the imagination, the inventively eccentric, the artistic spirit. Mentioned in this episode: William Blake; Reverend John Trusler; unorthodoxy; Visions of Eternity; Moses; Solomon; Aesop; Homer; Plato; John Keats; Blake's "The Tyger"; Alfred Kazin; living on a dollar a day. (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) This episode is reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://po...

2020-07-1511 min

In the Atelier Your Mind Must Not Perspire"Do not tread on the heels of your experience," says Henry David Thoreau in this journal entry from July 23, 1851. "Be impressed without making a minute of it." This is an episode from Thoreau's Leaves, our atmospheric podcast devoted to Thoreau's journal (www.thoreausleaves.com). Set out with Henry and see if you can muse again. Tree swallow sounds by Martin St. Michel, XC179722. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/179722 Music: "Ever I Wander" by Jameson Nathan Jones; "Tranquil" by Danny Pinder (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)

2020-07-0810 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Harriet Scott ChessmanAtelier Visits take you into the creative workspaces of artists we admire. We're asking writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers to bring you right inside their respective ateliers and share a bit about their process, their creative preoccupations, whatever is on their minds lately. It's an opportunity to spend a little while with various brilliant people who are busy doing good imaginative, artistic work. They'll speak to us directly about what life and creativity is like for them. Harriet Scott Chessman has published two novels with Atelier26 Books: The Beauty of Ordinary Things and Someone Not Really...

2020-07-0113 min

In the Atelier 4 Ways to Unleash New IdeasIt's our task not only to produce something when our ideas start to flow, but to keep ideas flowing in the first place. Mentioned in this episode: Henry James; notebooks; Ralph Waldo Emerson; weekly planners; Kazuo Ishiguro; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's A Moveable Feast; inspiration; two-headed lions; Joseph Campbell. Music: (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-06-2411 min

In the Atelier Atelier Visit: Writer Amy Lee LillardThis inaugural installment of our new series, Atelier Visits, features award-winning fiction writer Amy Lee Lillard at home in Des Moines, Iowa. Lillard's debut book, the kick-ass short story collection Dig Me Out, is coming from Atelier26 Books next year. Mentioned in this episode: election seasons; rad Raygun tees; living on your own; old houses; bats; feral cats; maintenance calls; rainbow fire; working from home; Broads and Books podcast; Sleater Kinney; Bikini Kill; Nine Inch Nails; Trent Reznor; Iggy Pop; profane cross-stitch; owning your creative identity. Music: "Wellington Joke" by Manos Mars; "Du Da" by Ian Post; "Broken Radios" by S...

2020-06-1713 min

In the Atelier The Attempt Is AllSuccess and failure are never cut and dried. Mentioned in this episode: Ralph Waldo Emerson; film editor Walter Murch; "The Conversations" by Michael Ondaatje and Walter Murch; Thomas Edison; Rilke; Paul Zweig. Music: "Escape" by Theevs; "Alter Ego" by LUMINAR; "When I Get There" by Maya Isac (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) Episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-06-1013 min

In the Atelier Going Strong While Getting ByThere are many reasons -- so many reasons -- for a rubbery deadline. Onward! Mentioned in this episode: The Journal of Jules Renard Music: "Siren (instrumental)" and "Sugar (instrumental)" by Katrina Stone (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) Episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-06-0307 min

In the Atelier Soul SchoolThe English poet John Keats died unknown to the world at age twenty-five. The odds were against him from the start. Today his poetic mastery is often cited as being second only to Shakespeare. In this episode we look at a letter Keats wrote in 1819, in which he called the world "the vale of Soul-Making." Mentioned in this episode: John Keats; Shakespeare; Christianity; Rilke Music: "Another Green World" by Loyla; "Papyrus" by Kyle Preston; "Ballo in Casa Capuleti" by Bottega Baltazar. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) E...

2020-05-2708 min

In the Atelier Why Stories MatterThoughts about the questions our most enduring stories ask and the effects these stories achieve. Mentioned in this episode: Wendell Berry; Northern California; Mount Diablo; The Green Age of Asher Witherow; John Steinbeck; Steinbeck's East of Eden; Salinas, California; regionalism; cynical critics; Nobel Prize; Book of Genesis; Barry Lopez; mythology; Wallace Stegner; Stegner's "The Sense of Place"; Carl Jung; Harold Bloom; Bloom's "Anxiety of Influence." Music: "Unplanned Run" by Stanley Gurvich; "Fall" by ANBR; "King of Mandol" by Swirling Ship (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c...

2020-05-2011 min

In the Atelier Watch Out for WisdomIn matters of art, wisdom is rarely conventional. Mentioned in this episode: Anthony Minghella; American movies; screenplays; three-act structure; Hollywood; formulas; plot; revision; Agnes Jaoui; Ingmar Bergman; Nicole Holofcener; Noah Baumbach; Wim Wenders; Minghella's "The English Patient"; Henry James; B.S.-detector; self-reliance; New York Times; William T. Vollman; movie deal. Music: "SnowJah" by Peter Spacey; "Homemade Apple Pie" by Jamie Bathgate; "Likes" by Swirling Ship (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-05-1309 min

In the Atelier Art As War and HeresyTwo books to console and inspire creative people. Mentioned in this episode: "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield; "True & False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor" by David Mamet; "Art As Experience" by John Dewey; "What Resists Us Helps Us" by In the Atelier. Music: "My Own Back" by Katrina Stone; "Wild" and "Northern Saints" by Swirling Ship; "Arcade" by Generation Lost (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-05-0609 min

In the Atelier Time for EverythingIn 1825, the great English essayist Charles Lamb wrote about his unexpected retirement and his struggles adapting to his sudden overabundance of time. In some ways, this could not be more relevant right now. Mentioned in this episode: Romantic Poets; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lamb's "The Superannuated Man"; East India Company; office life; drudgery; desk job; retirement; vacation time; leisure; depression; eternity; slowness; inactivity; thoughtfulness; freedom. Music: "Hands of Time" by Narrow Skies; "Fall" by ANBR; "Sails" by Rodello's Machine (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support...

2020-04-2914 min

In the Atelier Incredibly Shrinking SelvesBeing "oneself" could mean any number of things. That's a scary -- and inspiring -- thought. Mentioned in this episode: Throwing your back out; Nicolas Cage; Michael Caine; "The Weather Man" (2005 film). Music: "A Look Out" by Assaf Ayalon; "Depth Perception" by Sean Solo; "The Beauty of Your Life" by Rodello's Machine (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) Episode reprised from the ITA archives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-04-2209 min

In the Atelier It Is Natural to Need HelpOnce upon a time I relished the idea of “making it” on my own. I didn’t foresee the hazards. Mentioned in this episode: Being a lone wolf; acting versus writing; self-reliance; the rat race; grants and fellowships; Malcolm Gladwell; Gladwell's "Outliers"; Thornton Wilder; meritocracy; Alain de Botton; Botton's "Status Anxiety"; Andrew Carnegie; success myths; moral debts; editors Music: "Killing Time" by Stanley Gurvich; "Drift" by Be Still the Earth (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/i...

2020-04-1509 min

In the Atelier Measures of SuccessHow does a writer know whether or not they are "a Success"? Mentioned in this episode: Netflix; Dreamworks; Carnegie Hall; New York Times Bestseller list; midlist author; awkward party conversations; shelving at Barnes & Noble; being on Oprah Music: "Ohio" by Low Light; "Second Smile" by LMOP; "Rising Up" by OFRIN; "Once and For All" by Ian Post (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-04-0808 min

In the Atelier The Future Is Worth ExpectingFor some consolation in this time of crisis and beyond, we're introducing a new podcast: https://anchor.fm/thoreausleaves Bluebird sounds by Richard E. Webster, XC502284. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/502284 Music: "Nesting" by Evolv; "Walking in Forests" by Ben Winwood (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-04-0109 min

In the Atelier The World According to Tharp"There's a difference," writes Twyla Tharp, "between a work's beginning and starting to work." This episode shares thoughts on Tharp's book The Creative Habit. (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-03-2507 min

In the Atelier Defending the Imagination in 1799As a person is, so they see. In 1799 the English mystic, poet, and painter William Blake sat down to pen a lively document in defense of the imagination, the inventively eccentric, the artistic spirit. Mentioned in this episode: William Blake; Reverend John Trusler; unorthodoxy; Visions of Eternity; Moses; Solomon; Aesop; Homer; Plato; John Keats; Blake's "The Tyger"; Alfred Kazin; living on a dollar a day. Music: (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-03-1811 min

In the Atelier Four Ways to Unleash New IdeasIt's our task not only to produce something when our ideas start to flow, but to keep ideas flowing in the first place. Mentioned in this episode: Henry James; notebooks; Ralph Waldo Emerson; weekly planners; Kazuo Ishiguro; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's A Moveable Feast; inspiration; two-headed lions; Joseph Campbell. Music: (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-03-1111 min

In the Atelier The Barn of FortuneThoughts on happiness, the freedom to make art, and why the costs of some financial benefits are way too high. Mentioned in this episode: making a living; Bay Area housing; overpriced apartments Music: (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-03-0410 min

2020-02-2608 min

In the Atelier What Resists Us Helps UsImposed limitation can galvanize the imagination. So here's to "salutary antagonisms!" Mentioned in this episode: Ethan Canin; Canin's "Emperor of the Air"; Canin's short story, "Accountant"; Annie Proulx; John Dewey; Dewey's "Art As Experience" (1934); Katherine Anne Porter; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety" Music: "Puddles" by Stanley Gurvitch; "Continent" by ANBR; "Sparkle" by Maya Isac; "Vuelta al Sol" by Tomas Novoa; "Befun" by Befun (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-02-1913 min

In the Atelier Art Awakens UsThoughts about an inspiring film that will awaken you to your own senses. Music: "Chasing the Sun" by Narrow Skies; "I'll Understand" by Roza (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-02-1210 min

In the Atelier The Attempt is AllSuccess and failure are never cut and dried. Mentioned in this episode: Ralph Waldo Emerson; film editor Walter Murch; "The Conversations" by Michael Ondaatje and Walter Murch; Thomas Edison; Rilke; Paul Zweig. Music: "Escape" by Theevs; "Alter Ego" by LUMINAR; "When I Get There" by Maya Isac (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-02-0513 min

In the Atelier Ghosts and TeachersInspiration is often an assertive act, and pilgrimage is one way to harness it. Mentioned in this episode: Concord, Massachusetts; public library; Henry David Thoreau; Sophia Thoreau; Thoreau's "Walking"; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ticknor & Fields; John Guare; Thornton Wilder; Wilder's "Our Town"; William Wordsworth; Tintern Abbey; Prague; Rilke; Kafka; Glen Ellen, California; Jack London; London's "The Call of the Wild"; American Civil War; Walt Whitman; Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Music: "Family" by Josh Leake; "The Art of Loneliness" by ANBR; "La Stanza di Nelson 2" by Bottega Baltazar; "On the Trail" by Cameron Mackay (All music used by courtesy of the artists t...

2020-01-2913 min

In the Atelier Working Without WorkingWhat really takes discipline? Not working. Mentioned in this episode: W.H. Auden; Saul Bellow; Joan Didion; E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"; Annie Dillard; Dillard's "A Writing Life"; Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"; Andre Dubus; Henry James; T.S. Eliot; Zadie Smith; Smith's "Changing My Mind" Music: "Possible Light" by Ziv Moran; "Spain" by Dan Pundak; "Fragments" by Borrtex; "Mindplay (instrumental)" by Roza; "The World Inside" by Rodello's Machine (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-01-2213 min

In the Atelier A Good Way to Lose"Your application was not successful." These words don't always mean what we might think they do. Mentioned in this episode: application essay; statement of purpose; economic recession; layoffs Music: "Burn" by Kut; "Hypernova" by Theevs; "See Me Fly (instrumental)" by Roza; "On the Way" by Ian Post (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-01-1508 min

In the Atelier Surrendering to ProcessArtist Andy Goldsworthy strives to know and understand stone -- and that's no straightforward task. Mentioned in this episode: "Rivers and Tides" (2001 documentary film). Music: "Hand in the Jar" by Rodello's Machine (used by courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-01-0809 min

In the Atelier Incredibly Shrinking SelvesBeing "oneself" could mean any number of things. That's a scary -- and inspiring -- thought. Mentioned in this episode: Throwing your back out; Nicolas Cage; Michael Caine; "The Weather Man" (2005 film). Music: "A Look Out" by Assaf Ayalon; "Depth Perception" by Sean Solo; "The Beauty of Your Life" by Rodello's Machine (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-01-0109 min

In the Atelier What Am I Doing With My Life?Two kinds of doubt and how to use them. Mentioned in this episode: John Gardner; Gardner's "On Becoming a Novelist"; gap analysis; Henry James; James's "The Middle Years"; James's notebooks; Cynthia Ozick; prayer; intuition. Music: "Moonlight Call" by Racoon Racoon; "Purple Maze" by Lalinea; "Released" by Royal Nature; "Guide Your Wild Eyes" by Giants and Pilgrims (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2020-01-0109 min

In the Atelier Going Strong While Getting By (Bonus Installment)There are many reasons -- so many reasons -- for a rubbery deadline. Onward! Mentioned in this episode: The Journal of Jules Renard Music: "Siren (instrumental)" and "Sugar (instrumental)" by Katrina Stone (All music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-atelier/support

2019-12-1807 min

In the Atelier In the Absence of YesThoughts on a subject all too familiar to every writer: rejection. Believing in the worth of what you've produced is no easy thing. And deserving work is all too often passed over in sluice tides of manila envelopes. All that matters is what you're committed to. In the Atelier, a new weekly podcast premiering January 2020, is a place for occasional thoughts on literature, writing, and the life of the imagination. Each artfully crafted episode brings you reflections and real talk about subjects like the nature of creativity, the highs and lows of making art, inspiring works of l...

2019-11-2815 min