Tag: Market

• November 7, 2011

  How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.?

  How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.? How make a living without losing one’s shirt or one’s soul? Much to my dismay, Lewis Hyde, in The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, does not broach these questions because he is concerned, as he states quite explicitly, with writing…
• October 4, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 2): 2 chefs and a definition

  2 Chefs I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Soho. It’s dark, abnormally dark for a coffee shop, and I’m re-reading my copy of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. On my right, two men, dressed in suits, are talking hurriedly. I take them to be investment bankers working on Wall Street, but I come to find,…