Tag: success

If the most financially and critically successful artists don’t feel successful, maybe there’s something wrong with how we think about success.

When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.

Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.

Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.

My boss when I worked in London—someone who’d published Booker Prize winners, remember—used to say that two-thirds of publishing is about failure. I agree with that: it’s the nature of the business. And yet publishing is an industry that keeps attracting to it, in various ways, people who want it to be two-thirds about success. […]

“‘We thought we were the best in Hamburg and Liverpool—it was just a matter of time before everybody else caught on. We were the best fucking group in the goddamn world … and believing that is what made us what we were.’” -John Lennon, in a 1980 interview. Lennon is quoted in Andrew Romano’s 2013 […]