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So strange, so sad that Weegee, writing about Stieglitz, was predicting his own loneliness and decline into obscurity. But Weegee’s book does end on a bright note. Its final words are: “Be original and develop your own style, but don’t forget above anything and everything else…be human…think…feel. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond bet

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The first is enjoyment. This might sound like pleasure—“feeling good.” However, this isn’t correct. Pleasure is animal; enjoyment is completely human. Pleasure emanates from parts of the brain dedicated to rewarding us for certain activities, like eating and sex, that in earlier times would help keep us alive and passing on our genes. (Today the th

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Writers have a common love (one might also call it a need, like the need we have for food and air) for the creative process, despite the differences in their fields. It’s not quite accurate to describe this love, as I like to put it, as being similar to a “career” choice, because it is not something the writer or painter arbitrarily chooses. More a

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