The Mess That Made Them is a narrative biography collection that pushes back against the myth of genius and makes the case that what we often call genius from the outside is more accurately creative persistence. Through the lives of artists, writers, and composers, it looks past the legend and stays with the failure, grief, obsession, instability, and persistence that made the work possible.

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