I was on BBC Radio 4 talking about “the dark side of creativity” mwahahahaha…have a listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

What is it about creativity that is so inherently good? And does it actually offer the solution to all of our problems? buff.ly/42x86Ds

True to the book’s subtitle, you likely will be surprised to learn that as a supposed unitary facet of human personality, creativity is a relatively recent concept. lit.newcity.com/2023/06/22/dep…

Parlez-vous français? Read this interview I gave! It was super fun and got into some important stuff.

"Creativity is one of the few American pieties. Whatever it might be, we all agree that it is good, and that we should have 'more' of it." Charlie Tyson on Samuel Weil Franklin's "The Cult of Creativity," for Chronicle Review chronicle.com/article/the-co…

I wrote about a new cultural history of creativity, for The Chronicle of Higher Education / Chronicle Review chronicle.com/article/the-co…

Thank you to the brilliant Throughline for giving me nearly an hour to talk about the weird concept of creativity. Thanks for the challenging questions, thanks for the amazing audio clips. npr.org/2023/07/12/118…

A really lovely and thoughtful review of my book in the The Chronicle of Higher Education of Higher Education. chronicle.com/article/the-co…

I wrote a little essay for the Montreal Review on the concept of creativity in the long(-ish) arc of cultural history. themontrealreview.com/Articles/Creat…

youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp… Just gonna leave this here

Hi The Allusionist Helen Zaltzman 👋 I’ve got an episode I’d like to pitch. Is there somewhere I can reach you? A suggestion box nailed to a tree some place, perhaps?

I'm so pleased to have this excerpt from The Cult of Creativity reprinted in Behavioral Scientist, and to reach some of the communities whose history I write about. The Surprising Origins of Our Obsession with Creativity behavioralscientist.org/the-surprising… via Behavioral Scientist

Wow, a nice little write-up of The Cult of Creativity in the Times of India! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit…

I love Leonardo journal, and was really pleased with this review of my book. leonardo.info/review/2023/09…

Super great full-page review in the WSJ: wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

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"The concept’s opaqueness allowed users to commit neither to the elites that lauded its virtues nor to the egalitarian sensibilities that insisted creativity was a latent trait evenly distributed." William Krause on The Cult of Creativity UChicagoPress clereviewofbooks.com/writing/samuel…

New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by Gavin Miller "a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area" histhum.com/__cultofcreati…

クリエイティブという神話 私たちはなぜそれを崇拝するのか / 原タイトル:The Cult of Creativity サミュエル・フランクリン/著 加藤洋子/訳 本/雑誌 - Neowing neowing.co.jp/product/NEOBK-… #neowing