Topic
Art
5 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Patti Smith: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Patti Smith — how to approach Just Kids, her National Book Award-winning memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1970s New York. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rick Rubin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rick Rubin — how to approach The Creative Act, his philosophical meditation on creativity as a way of attending to the world rather than a talent or technique. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Creativity: Essential Reading List
The best books about creativity — from Bird by Bird and On Writing to The War of Art and Big Magic. Books that help you understand the creative process and do the work.
Best Books About Music and Art: Fiction and Memoir
The best books about music and art — from High Fidelity and Just Kids to The Goldfinch and The Noise of Time. Fiction and memoir about creativity and artistic life.
Books Like The Goldfinch: Art, Loss, and the Object That Holds a Life Together
Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel of Theo Decker — who survives a museum bombing that kills his mother and takes a small Dutch painting — follows the painting across decades and continents. These books share its obsession with art's power, its Dickensian scope, and its meditation on what we hold onto.
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