Author Sarah Schulman

Perhaps, I will be regarded as pushing the boundaries here but I am going to try. I attended part of the English Graduate lecture series and the speaker was Sarah Schulman. She gave a reading from one of her books The Child and then took questions. Her advice to all artists was to never stop working. She spent around eight years trying to get a book printed that her publishers felt society could not embrace. She refused to compromise her concept. She stated that during the difficult eight year gap she just kept writing furiously and eventually got her work published. Her stance was simple: working can yield something amazing but if you don't work you eliminate the opportunity for growth and successful output. She touched on cultural receptivity to the new and controversial. Schulman's perspective was a broad one. I found her rational investigative stance a good way to explore larger emotionally, morally, or socially charged issues.