Kay Larson was the the art critic for New York Magazine for fourteen years and has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times. In 1994, she entered Zen practice at a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York.
“Heroic… fascinating.” --New York Times
“Inspirational… exuberant.” --Los Angeles Times
"Revelatory… Where the Heart Beats may not just be the best book
written yet about John Cage; it’s probably also one of the most
substantive-yet-readable entryways into the nexus of 20th-century
American art and the immortal qualities of Eastern thought… one of
the most profound, not to mention unexpected, gifts
imaginable."--Slate
"Absorbing… no future commentator on Cage's work or influence will
be able to ignore Larson's contribution…a milestone in contemporary
cultural criticism." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Remarkable… without a doubt the richest, most stimulating, most
absorbing book I’ve read in the past year, if not decade —
remarkably researched, exquisitely written, weaving together a
great many threads of cultural history into a holistic
understanding of both Cage as an artist and Zen as a lens on
existence… Not unlike Cage’s music, Where the Heart Beats: John
Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists is impossible to
distill, to synthesize, to relay. Rather, its goodness is best
experienced in full, with complete surrender. "--Brain Pickings
"Strange and wonderful... a gloriously rich reading experience,
studded with layers upon layers of deeply inspiring and endlessly
fascinating paths. One of the best books of the year in any
category." --NPR.org (A Favorie Music Book of the Year)
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