Let’s be honest here in saying that we’re predisposed to like author and artist Austin Kleon, because he not only reads newspapers, but they are the basis of his art.
The Austin, Texas-based author’s first book, “Newspaper Blackout,” was a collection of poems that had been redacted, CIA-style, as he likes to say, from actual newspapers.
That experience led him to think more deeply about the nature of creativity and how anyone, regardless of career, could become more creative in their work. Those meditations have been turned into a very simple, straightforward 152-page, 6-by-6-inch book, “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative” (Workman, $10.95).
To read the full, original article click on this link: ‘Creativity’ doesn’t have to mean ‘originality’ | ajc.com
