how to make a work of art (that later ends up on TV)
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When it came out, I bought Adam Moss’s book The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing. On my Kindle. Not even as a coffee table book, even though I think that’s how it exists in most peoples’ homes. I usually don’t fall for this sort of inspirational text, but I really like Adam Moss and something about it appealed to me. (Adam Moss was the last editor of New York magazine.) How do people get work done?! What is the difference between me and everyone else with an HBO show? I genuinely cannot tell the difference sometimes between my Hollywood friends and myself, but there must be a difference. I sort of thought this book might tell me. (I am human.)
The chapter in the book that made it worth buying for me—besides learning that Roz Chast lives in Connecticut—was about Tony Kushner and how he managed to write Angels in America. A show, when I bought the book, I’d never seen. I realized it is a hugely famous play in America and it won the Pulitzer and is “about AIDS” and the reason Tony is a “household” name. But I didn’t grow up watching theatre or HBO, so I had never watched it.