Creative Industries Are Not Bad Investments, And Banks Should Lend To Them: Report

“Risky Business,” a report issued by the think tank Demos, states that “start-up companies in the creative industries are no more likely to fail than the economy as a whole, and are statistically more successful than hotels and restaurants.” The study suggests that these industries pose less risk “as a result of the passion, dedication and skill of the individuals involved.”

Reading Spalding Gray’s Journals

“In his personal writings, Gray comes across in a more extreme way than in his theatrical persona, his anguish and need not tempered by his perceptive charm. … But these entries also show an artist discovering his powers, in the process of creating an autobiographical genre that has since been so widely replicated that it is hard to imagine the daring it took to come first.”