It's time to penetrate deep into the creative process. These are my extensive excavation notes on Rick Rubin's book, which is more meditative than instructive; more philosophic than analytic; more silent than deadly. It's the kind of book you pull off the shelf when you've hit a creative block so that Rick Rubin can whisper the names of his favorite fruit into your ear.

The Creative Act

Steven Pressfield on Tetragrammaton

Tarot and the Law of Cycles by Mitch Horowitz

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Kevin Kelly on How I Write

The Victorian Internet episode

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

The Dip episode

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Benjamin Franklin episode

“When Dove Cry” by Prince

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Stripped documentary

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