Are you trying to finish your novel? Do you want to build your own business? Would you like to establish an everyday mindfulness or physical routine? The impact of having a consistent practice focused on your life goals cannot be underestimated. Prolific author and creativity coach Eric Maisel has been working with artists and creative people for more than thirty years. His new book, The Power of Daily Practice: How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals, presents a thorough and holistic approach to meeting the goals and challenges of creating an authentic and effective daily practice. 

Diana Rowan, author of The Bright Way: Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within, believes that our collective shelter-in-place experience will ultimately inspire us to honor connection like never before. We hope you’ll enjoy this interview with her about the importance of creativity in challenging times. For more New World Library author interviews, please visit our YouTube channel.

When you search for “the best books about improv,” Stephen Nachmanovitch’s Free Play is always near the top of the list. With more than 200,000 copies sold, it’s in its 30th year of publication and still going strong. Nachmanovitch’s long-awaited second book is finally here! The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of Life shows exactly how the passion and immediacy of improvisation can be cultivated and how, in fact, we all improvise all the time. It is not a special act of genius of which few are capable but is in fact the natural activity of all humans, whether we’re driving a car or holding a conversation. People who might claim they could never improvise negotiate these tasks with fluidity and ease every day. We hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from the book.

New World Library is very excited to be publishing a brand-new book by the well-known and much-loved comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham. The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell’s previously uncollected articles on dance as well as the treatise he was working on when he died, “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts.”

In many ways, this book is a love letter both to his wife and to art-making itself, celebrating dance and the performing arts through the unique mythological lens that only Joseph Campbell can provide. We hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from the book’s foreword by editor Nancy Allison.