The Lit Show: Heidi Julavits, Ben Greeman, Sam Lipsyte, & Mason Currey in Conversation with Joe Fassler

• Books & Literature

The Lit Show presents Daily Rituals, an evening of reading and discussion. Guests Ben Greenman, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte read from their work and take part in conversation moderated by Mason Currey and Lit Show host Joe Fassler.

Currey’s book, Daily Rituals (Alfred A. Knopf), collects insights and anecdotes about writers’ daily work–and the workaday reality of writers will be our conversation topic. It’s easy to become smitten with rosy notions of the creative process: the artist alone at a battered desk, composing in epiphanic fits. But inspiration, as most working artists can testify, is trickier and more elusive than romantic narratives suggest. (“Blank pages inspire me with terror,” said no less a writer than Margaret Atwood.)

What habits, large and small, help writers overcome creative fear and continue working–day after day, year by year? How to forge a relationship with words that lasts and sustains a lifetime?

This event is free and open to the public, and a signing will follow. Audio and video recording by Yellow Hook Productions.