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By Mason Currey

In 2007, while procrastinating on a magazine article due the next morning, I started a blog about writers' and artists' daily routines. It was just a hobby! But that hobby eventually led to my two DAILY RITUALS books, in which I compiled brief profiles of the day-to-day working lives of more than 300 brilliant minds. Bookforum called the first volume "perfectly giftable and suited for the nightstand or the back of the toilet," which, OK, I'll take it. 

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Daily Rituals

Mason Currey 

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On the routines and working habits of 161 inspired minds, from Beethoven to Donald Barthelme, Kafka to Georgia O’Keeffe. According to the Wall Street Journal, “What recommends this compendium of mini-biographies is its revelation of the infinite variety, unpredictable zaniness and inimitability of artists’ routines.”

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Daily Rituals: Women at Work

Mason Currey 

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A sequel, and a corrective: In the first Daily Rituals, I featured far more men than women; in this second volume, I correct the imbalance with profiles of the day-to-day working lives of 143 women writers, artists, and performers, including Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Nina Simone, Meredith Monk, and Miranda July. Booklist said, “The spectrum of creativity is radiant, and each artist’s rituals of concentration and balancing act between art and life are revelatory and awe-inspiring.”

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