An episode from 11/4/22: Tonight, I talk about creativity and wonder what actors and writers have in common. In the most general sense of finding solace in the anecdotes from the working lives of other creative people, I also mention the revelation that Inside the Actor's Studio was, for me, in my early twenties. The springboard for much of what I say is Simon Callow’s ⁠article in the New York Review of Books⁠, which itself is a review of Isaac Butler’s “history” of Method acting, ⁠The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act⁠. Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

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