Book Club: Mason Currey

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Mason Currey, author of the new book&nbsp;<em>Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life</em>. He tells me how artists, writers and composers have wrangled through history with the challenge of scraping by, and how that has affected their art, from Baudelaire's lifelong outrage at being forced to live on an allowance and John Berryman's disastrous stint as a door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman to Haydn reinventing the musical idiom …