In Episode 6 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with writer LuLing Osofsky. Osofsky’s work ranges from intimately personal lyric essays about her love and sex life, to investigative journalism and researched history, which she also manages to approach with a personal, revealing perspective.
Osofsky dives in by talking about feeling like a nobody, and what it might mean to be a somebody.
Listen to Episode 4 (and subscribe to Make/Work!) now in iTunes. Or get the direct download.
“People talk about getting up, making your cup of coffee, sitting down at the desk, and doing your 4 hours when the air is fresh and the day is pure and your mind is clean and you haven’t been burdened yet by the chores and the tasks. I work late at night because I’ve finally had all day to filter through the debris of my sleep.”
You can read LuLing’s essay “Chop City,” published in Orion Magazine and mentioned at the end of the episode, here.
Every creative laborer has a different story to tell about how they negotiate their relationship between their creative work and their paycheck and how they balance their lives to sustain their creative practice. In Make/Work, Scott will speak with emerging and established artists working in a wide range of creative mediums about how they survive, how they make a living, and how they maintain their work over the long term. New episodes will be released every other Thursday.
