Boredom, Contemplation, Creativity

Here's an interesting article on the potential profundity of boredom: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/09/the_joy_of_boredom/

Blake on creativity

Here's a thoughtful review in swans.com of my new book on creativity and William Blake: http://www.swans.com/library/art17/cmarow186.html.

Another Early Review of My Business Is To Create

Here's a detailed and generous review of my new book on creativity, as seen through the eyes of William Blake: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/wilson-my-business-is-to-create/.

Creativity, via William Blake

My new book on creativity--what it is, and how to get it (at least through the eyes of William Blake--was just released. It's called My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing, published by University of Iowa Press. Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin has this to say about the book: “A risky and exhilarating adventure in reading Blake as a spiritual guide. Writers and artists and maybe ecologists will find treasures here." Here's more information:
http://www.amazon.com/My-Business-Create-Infinite-Writing/dp/1587299909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302437346&sr=8-1

Early reviews of my new writing handbook based on the the life and work of William Blake

In about a month, the University of Iowa Press will publish my latest book, called My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing. The book is part of the press's Muse Series, which features handbooks for writers of all kinds and levels. Each handbook is based on the life and work of a great writer. Mine, as the title makes clear, focuses on William Blake, and it will be useful not only to writers but to painters and musicians, too.

Here's more information: http://www.amazon.com/My-Business-Create-Infinite-Writing/dp/1587299909/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298974106&sr=1-1.

And here's an early review: http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/MyBusinessistoCreatebyEricGWilson.

And another: http://the-book-garden.blogspot.com/2011/01/review-my-business-is-to-create-eric-g.html.

More Musings on Winter and Melancholia

This morning I had a good talk with Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio. We talked about the sorrow that often comes with Christmas and the power of It's a Wonderful Life, the greatest holiday film: http://wpr.org/ideas/programnotes.cfm.

Have a Blue Christmas

I was recently interviewed by Julie Rose on Charlotte's NPR affiliate, WFAE 90.7. We talk about how melancholy the holidays can be--and how that may not be such a bad thing: http://www.wfae.org/wfae/1_87_316.cfm?action=display&id=6754.