Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists…

From probably the most thrilling particular person in American theater” (Newsweek), right here is Anna Deavere Smith’s brass tacks recommendation to aspiring artists of all stripes. In vividly anecdotal letters to the younger BZ, she addresses the total spectrum of points that folks beginning out will face: from questions of confidence, self-discipline, and vanity, to fame, failure, and concern, to staying wholesome, presenting your self successfully, constructing a various social community, and utilizing your artwork to advertise social change. Without delay inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Younger Artist will problem you, encourage you, and set you on a course to pursue your artwork with out compromise.