Howard Gray's Groove Theory newsletter explores the unscripted, behind-the-scenes craft of how creative work and people get good at it, using historical case studies such as Pina Bausch's Bochum production and a Channel 4 Serie A broadcast. Issues also include personal football club writing about Clapton CFC.
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Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
A weekly newsletter from the author of Steal Like an Artist, mixing curated lists of links and quotations with typewriter interviews of artists and writers conducted by mail. Readers get creative inspiration, book and art recommendations, and a personal view of a working creative life.
Each issue explains one mental model, such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking through Brunelleschi's dome, or the law of closure, and applies it to the work of people who make things. The writing is vivid, historically grounded and draws concrete lessons for creators.
Soundfly Weekly is a creative newsletter with essay-style love letters on the creative process, music, and learning, often weaving science, history, and personal anecdotes into musical ideas. Readers get reflective, idea-driven writing about experimental and minimalist music and the craft of making sound.
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