Most men chasing the writer’s life have the same fantasy: quit the corporate world, escape to Paris, find the bohemian enclave where great work just happens. But that Paris doesn’t exist anymore — and Zan would argue it never quite existed the way we imagine it.
In this episode, Jordan presses Zan for an update on his next book (still no release date — sorry, you’ve been warned), and Zan opens up about the slow, painterly way he writes: six hours a day in the chair, no Substack dribbles, no early drafts shown to anyone. Then the conversation turns to a question many men in our audience are quietly wrestling with: how do you hold a creative life and a corporate life in the same body, without one suffocating the other?
They move through the four archetypes of the would-be artist, the romance of place (Paris in the 20s, Brooklyn now, Bucharest, Bali), and the strange truth that even with the internet “democratising” creativity, most of us are working alone — without that gentle rivalry between Picasso and Matisse looking over each other’s shoulders.
Watch until the end for Zan’s plans for a literary retreat in Venice this autumn, haunting the ghost of Casanova through the city that shaped him.
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