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Black Irish Entertainment LLC The Knowledge by Steven Pressfield Edited by Shawn Coyne
Where did The War of Art come from?How did creativity sensei Steven Pressfield come up with the notion that there is an insidious force in the universe called Resistance that keeps us from pursuing our lifes work and fulfilling our artistic destiny? And that until we recognize and engage in an endofdays battle with the big R our inner genius will remain blocked and unborn inside an internal protoplasmic goo?Was he touched by angels as he contemplated the universe in an ashram?Did he meet a mysterious stranger at a truck stop in Twin Falls Idaho who imparted deep truths over a cup of muddy Joe?Perhaps blunt force trauma in a Reno bar had something to do with it?If only.As his Too Close To True Novel THE KNOWLEDGE riotously reveals the truth of Pressfields Weltanschauung origin story lies somewhere between fact and fiction.In the highcrime 1970s in New York Pressfield was driving a cab and tending bar incapable of achieving anything literary beyond the completion of his thirdinarow unpublishable novel. Until fate in the form of a job tailing his bosss straying wife propels him into a Big Lebowskiesque underworld saga that ends with him coming to a lifealtering crisis involving not just the criminals he has become deeply and emotionally involved with but with his own inner demons of the blank page.THE KNOWLEDGE is not just a writers comingofage story. Its every writers comingofage story.If youre a fan of THE WAR OF ART Pressfields new novel THE KNOWLEDGE is the story behind that story and the origin tale between its lines.show more