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DJ Paulette

DJ Paulette in the house!

A DJ pioneer who is still going strong, Paulette has done it all. With style.

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You don't need permission

You don’t need funding to make your art

You just need to begin. That's how the magic really happens.

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Artists at work

Artists at work (saving the planet)

Can art save the world? These artists are quietly trying, with a new book showing how they bring sustainability into their work and practice

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William Shaw

William Shaw on a life in crime

William Shaw is now a successful crime writer. But it took 30 years and three failed novels for him to find the audience his writing deserves.

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Tom Hodgkinson

Tom Hodgkinson: the hardest working man in slow business

The editor of The Idler magazine on his new book, and why we should all be a little more idle

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$100,000 a year from piano lessons

$100k a year from piano lessons

Ayana Webb has an impressive business teaching piano online. Whatever your skill, if you can teach it, you can do it too

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Spike Island

Spike Island, and the summer of 1990

The Stone Roses gig celebrated in a new photographic book. And what it means for creatives today.

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Quentin Tarantino on how he coped with failure

Quentin Tarantino on his first failure 

We all fail. What really matters is what we do next. Here's what Tarantino did, and what we all can learn from it.

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Daisy Buchanan

Daisy Buchanan on writing her love story for greedy girls

Author, journalist, podcaster – and now a best-selling author with Insatiable

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Lou Rhodes

Lou Rhodes on Lamb, lockdown, and her new book for children

Lou should have been touring with her group Lamb in 2020. Instead, she created a children's book

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launching a new career in lockdown

Starting a new career in lockdown

When four peacocks arrived in town, they changed one couple's lives

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The creative life of Viggo Mortensen

The creative life of Viggo Mortensen

Actor, photographer, poet, publisher, football fan: if you do what interests you, Viggo Mortensen believes you'll have an interesting life

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