Denise Shekerjian has written a thought provoking, absorbing, literate guide to the birth of creativity. She spoke with some of the most intelligent, quirky, iconoclastic, tricky, and, well, creative people of our time. All whom are recognized with the MacArthur Fellowship award – including paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, social scientists Robert Coles and Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot, Opera director Peter Sellars, poets Joseph Brodsky and Brad Leithauser, film maker John Salyes, carpenter Sam Maloof, and clown Bill Irwin – just to name a view of the 40 selected to be interviewed by Shekerjian that received the “genius award”.
