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Abstract
What the Gramophone Listener Wants to Hear is a collection of short prose, includingstories, hybrid works, and a lyric essay. The individual works are united by a common interest in the creative arts: painting, woodworking, classical music, documentary filmmaking, and more. Each work in the collection also investigates the conditions for and results of a creative life. With varying points of view, styles, and structures, the works examine writers block and the struggle for inspiration, the unglamorous loneliness of artistic endeavors, the difficulty of striking a balance between creative work and companionship, the role of public art in political crises, and the conflicts inherent to collaboration.