On the Creative Act

I wanted to like this book, I really did, but I couldn’t. It’s stylish, the prose is genuinely good, but there’s little substance underneath. There are a few good nuggets — the author has good things to say about sincerity and inconsistency in one of the final chapters — but not enough to save it. It’s very Instagrammable, and I’m sure the Bookstagram and BookTok crowd loves it; it has the same energy as Rupi Kaur, honestly, though I liked her work more.