Can I recommend this to kickstart any writer’s daily practice, morning pages or journaling exercise? It fills a sort of “Artist’s Way” gap in your day, but with thoughtful, inspiring short essays and related journal prompts from people like Gloria Steinem, Jia Tolentino, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Gilbert, George Saunders, Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Baptiste and more.

My days are better when I start by reading a chapter while I have my morning coffee, putting pen to paper and just seeing what happens.