3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Rick Rubin's podcast where he interviews musicians and artists about their creative process — offering an intimate look at how the most accomplished music makers think about their work.
Jake Brown's 2009 account of Rick Rubin's production career — tracing his work from Def Jam through American Recordings — as an overview of his production techniques and philosophy.
Annie Dillard's 1989 meditation on the writing process — covering the isolation, difficulty, and strange demands of sustained creative work — written in her characteristically intense, observational prose and containing some of the most quoted passages about creative labor in American literature.