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In the third installment of Culture Reinvents Itself: Conversations with Greil Marcus, journalist and essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan speaks with author Greil Marcus (Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY).
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From Unnamed Caves to Unknown Bards: John Jeremiah Sullivan in Conversation with Greil Marcus

Robert Christgau gives Ryan Duffy a detailed description of the mechanics that are involved in being a music critic. It's not really as easy as it seems...

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Robert Christgau Explains Mechanics of Being a Music Critic

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's <i>Design Matters</i> interview with cartoonist Chris Ware. 

Full interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/chris-ware

Related article about his incredible <i>Building Stories</i>: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/

Chris Ware on destiny, literature, and unlived lives

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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Robert Christgau Explains Mechanics of Being a Music Critic

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