Any history of culture, you might say, is partly a history of jerks, of selfishness and worse often defended in the service of masterpieces, of great artists held above all else. Which is not an original idea, of course. The old math goes like: Great art makes the world better, therefore the cost of a great artist’s lousy behavior — neglected families, steamrolled subjects, plagiarism, abuse — is never too steep. Great works are valued more than the unhappiness of a handful. But naturally, nothing is so simple. One of Favorite’s go-to examples is James Joyce. She remembers, as a student, her own professor at SAIC telling her Joyce believed his writing came before everything else, including earning enough to put food on the table for his children. “I remember thinking, ‘OK, so am I not selfish enough to be great?’ Good people can make good things, too?”
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