Her writing about art and Buddhism has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, ARTnews, The Village Voice, Vogue, Artforum, Tricycle, and Buddhadharma, among others.
The book is an "unconventional biography"[6] of John Cage: composer, Buddhist, and arts innovator; and specifically, his awakening through Zen Buddhism and the central role it played in his life and work.
[2] Though there have been other biographies written about Cage, what makes “Where the Heart Beats” different is that Larson focuses on the interior process behind his work, excerpting from his writings, interviews, and recorded talks.
[7] As Ben Rattliff observed in The New York Times, “The lessons he absorbed — particularly one on the ego and the outside world, reconstructed and well narrated by Ms. Larson — solidified notions he’d already been swimming toward through his early studies in harmony with Arnold Schoenberg; his interest in the ideas of noise and anti-art taken from Futurism and Dada; and his readings of Christian and Hindu mystics.
[14] The consortium was organized by Jacquelynn Baas (Director, University of California Berkeley Art Museum), and Mary Jane Jacob (professor, Department of Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) to investigate the shared aspects of the meditating, creative, and perceiving mind, and the relationship of Buddhism to contemporary artmaking.