The Honorable Obscurity Handbook: Solidarity & Sound Advice For Writers And Artists (Samizdat Series)

Part consoling sourcebook, part cultural commentary, and part wry self-help manual, this gloriously uncynical handbook provides advice for creatives struggling in a career world awash in bottom-line thinking. With an appealing blend of sound counsel, good humor, and vivid historical and literary anecdotes, M. Allen Cunningham offers solidarity to any writer or artist working against the grain of the times, and reminds us that obscurity, rather than being cause for shame, is a time-honored condition of the serious, committed artist. Readers will laugh aloud at the e-mails received by Henry David Thoreau's literary agent in response to his "bloated and incoherent" book Walden, and will underline and annotate the margins in such pieces as "In the Absence of Yes," Cunningham's bracing perspective on endless rejection. Hailed by Cynthia Ozick as "ingenious...important...inspiring and inspiriting," this unique handbook is unlike any volume on creativity you have read before. It is packed with insights -- both practical and philosophical -- that will appeal to every creative person you know. 9780989302302 098930230X 0 BOOK Art NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZL8HnAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: M. Allen Cunningham
• | Publisher: Atelier26 Books
• | Publication Date: Nov 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 098930230X
• | ISBN-13: 9780989302302