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Excerpted from Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called "The Creative Habit," sharing the message that we can all live creative lives if only we could ...

Journalist Robert Krulwich explains that the storytelling abilities of neurologist Oliver Sacks had the significant effect of "storying people back into the world" – people who otherwise would have been isolated and overlooked by the rest of society because of their neurological challenges.

The writer Flannery O'Connor was known for her dark, funny and sassy stories about misfits, outsiders and the types of offbeat characters she encountered while living in the American South. O'Connor herself could be considered a sort of outsider. Plagued by symptoms of lupus in ...

From McSweeney’s, 2013 Race and faith and their attendant hierarchies and delusions are O'Connor's great themes. She was hailed for her artistic and social independence, but readings of this American master often overlook the originality and honesty of her portrayal of Southern whiteness. Or, rather, ...

Music fans old enough to remember 1971 can be forgiven if they remember it as the year of Carole King. That was the year, after all, when the “Tapestry” hurricane hit American culture – hit and never really left. 14 million units sold, four Grammy ...

The legendary jazz composer Duke Ellington used music as a subtle, but compelling way to tell stories of racial injustice to wide reaching audiences. Rising through the ranks from a small time performer in Washington, D.C. and Harlem, to an international sensation adored by white ...

Throughout her career, the dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp has blazed a singular path that has shaped and reimagined the modern American dance scene as we know it today. Tharp seemingly draws from an endless well of creativity, often bringing together disparate elements from various ...

It wasn't the first time I had seen Twyla at work with her dancers, but it was definitely the most memorable. She was deep into the piece that would become "In the Upper Room" (1987), a vast and thrilling spectacle that juxtaposes ballet with Twyla's ...

The renowned physician and writer Oliver Sacks was known for his amazing empathy for other people. But his first “friends” as a child, as he described, were not people but numbers, minerals, metals, and plants. He loved these things throughout his life and even incorporated ...