![]() ![]() Thanks, David! Check out his newsletter, Range Widely. David Epstein is the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and of the New York Times bestseller The Sports Gene, which has been translated in 21 languages. David Epstein is the author of the 1 New York Times best seller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and of the New York Times best. He keeps “a book of small experiments,” where he forces himself, if he gets in “a rut of competence,” to try out and learn new things. As for his reading diet, he said he reads The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and New Scientist to sort of get leads on what to read next.ģ. (This didn’t surprise me, as I learned a ton about writing from film editor Walter Murch’s book, In the Blink of an Eye.) He also said that he’s taken fiction classes.Ģ. He credited his experience helping a film editor friend who had a hand injury - literally sitting there all day and clicking the mouse for him - as hugely instructive. ![]() He told me he reads a lot of fiction to try to pick up interesting approaches to structure. Here’s video of my chat with David Epstein, author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Our conversation, as we had hoped, ranged all over the place. ![]()
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