Rakoff on Creativity

David Rakoff was a critically acclaimed humorist/writer. Here he is speaking about creativity. Rakoff discusses the dominant narrative on creativity as simple expression verse a practiced skill. He uses the example of "Rent" and storytelling podcasts.

This is an excerpt from an interview on the radio show/podcast "The Sound of Young America" which now goes by "Bullseye with Jesse Thorn." You can hear a memorial podcast put together of two separate interviews with Jesse Thorn from 2005 and 2011 at. . .

https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/david-rakoff-a-retrospective