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“Maybe the world will always be crazy, and creative work will always be hard. Then the question becomes: How do you keep going?” —Austin Kleon
“Even if you’re a company of one, you need some R&D time.” —Austin Kleon
Welcome to The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show where I speak to badass writers, filmmakers, producers, and podcasters about the art and craft of telling true stories.
Today’s guest is one of my favorite writers: Austin Kleon. His latest book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, is an amazing little book that does what it sets out to do. If you’re in the Portland, OR area on April 11, he’ll be at Powell’s talking the talk. For more tour dates, go here.
In this episode we talk about his early days as a librarian, how his books talk to each other, researching in public, re-pitching art as a verb (when people desperately want to be the “noun,” and, of course, how to keep going.
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Thanks to our show’s patrons in Goucher College’s MFA in Nonfiction and Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction for the support. Please enjoy my conversation with Austin Kleon!
Books By Austin Kleon
Newspaper Blackout
Steal Like an Artist
Show Your Work
The Steal Like an Artist Journal
Keep Going