"Eliza Foss performs this powerful audiobook in a mature-sounding voice she modulates with skill." —AudioFile on The Listening Path (Earphones Award winner)
Floor Sample is a memoir from the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron...
Julia Cameron has transformed the creative lives of millions, showing them that creativity is their uniquely human birthright. But long before the tools of The Artist's Way changed the conversation around creativity, Julia developed and used them in her own life.
Floor Sample is the story behind an artistic life—detailing Julia's years in New York, her time as a writer for Rolling Stone, her turbulent marriage to Martin Scorsese, and her painful struggle with alcohol, which ultimately led her to recovery and the methods that would form the backbone of The Artist's Way.
The life Julia shares in her memoir is tempestuous, flitting restlessly across the country, falling in and out of love, wrestling with alcohol and mental health, but through all of it, always, her art was a fixed point and north star. Featuring a brand new prologue from the author, Floor Sample is honest and unapologetic, a glimpse into the heart and mind behind The Artist's Way.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press Essentials.
-
Creators
-
Publisher
-
Release date
August 8, 2023 -
Formats
-
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250905840
- File size: 437095 KB
- Duration: 15:10:36
-
-
Languages
- English
-
Reviews
-
February 20, 2006
At 57, Cameron, famous for her semispiritual approach to healing artist's block (presented in 1992's The Artist's Way
) still seeks her creative and emotional center. She now details her creative struggles, framed by her fight to maintain sobriety after years as an alcoholic and drug addict. Early fame writing for Rolling Stone
led her to the most cataclysmic relationship of her life, a youthful marriage to director Martin Scorsese, with whom she had her only child. The relationship lasted less than two years. For 10 years after, Cameron chased similar creative ground to Scorsese's, attending film school, making small films and screenwriting for film and TV. She seemed unable to settle down, moving between Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Taos, and details a constant, painful struggle to find a creative touchstone. Her one focus remains her art—yet that often resembles monomania and leads her to periodic psychotic breaks. She leaves her daughter adrift to work on her art; relationships crash and burn because she is a workaholic and egomaniac. Cameron is best at revealing the dark side of her privileged life: her descent into alcoholic blackouts and drug-induced paranoia as well as descriptions of her bouts with psychosis. These are disturbingly vivid; the rest is febrile New Age rhetoric.
-