Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

by Mason Currey

Excellent Book

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

About the author

Mason Currey is the author of the Daily Rituals books—Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (2019)—featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day working lives of more than 300 brilliant minds. His next book, Making Art and Making a Living, comes out on March 31, 2026.

Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers, a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process.

Reviews

[Francesca Curtis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the idea behind this book and it certainly delivered. It was so fascinating to read about all these incredible people and their bizarre and eccentric daily routines. So many great quotes included too. I look forward to reading his other books in the “daily rituals” series.

[D_Dog84 · Rating 2 out of 5]

(AUDIBLE)

[Adnamy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good and interesting and then … repetitive
There are only so many ways a worker works at writing reading or penguin breeding