Bomb: The Author Interviews
Betsy Sussler
ISBN: 9781616953799
Published: November, 2014
Pricing
Paperback $16.00
Description
Drawing on 30 years of BOMB Magazine, this anthology brings together some of the greatest figures of world literature for a brilliant and unforgettable collection of sharp, insightful and intimate author conversations. With an introduction by Francine Prose....
Drawing on 30 years of BOMB Magazine, this anthology brings together some of the greatest figures of world literature for a brilliant and unforgettable collection of sharp, insightful and intimate author conversations. With an introduction by Francine Prose.
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“BOMB gives us conversation distilled into dream conversation, talk that transcends talk, thought that digs beneath transient impressions to get at the essence, the meaning, the purpose, the experience of the writing process. There is something to be remembered and learned from every one of the conversations gathered here. Read them for pleasure, for entertainment, for insight, and for clues to the mystery—to the hard labor and the profound satisfactions—of what writers do.”
—Francine Prose, from her introduction
“Reading BOMB interviews was one of the ways I began to conceive of myself as an artist.”
—Miranda July
“No other magazine, no other source of any kind, consistently advances so much vivid and indispensable intelligence into how art actually gets made in America and around the world as BOMB.”
—Robert Polito, Director of the New School Graduate Writing Program
“Through the diverse range of voices represented, the book affords a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world's best practitioners of poetry and prose.”
–Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review on BOMB: The Author Interviews
“Lets readers into the room for conversations with Martin Amis, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Sharon Olds, and others about the craft of writing.”
–Boston Globe on BOMB: The Author Interviews
“These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity ... Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature.”
–Seattle Post-Intelligencer on BOMB: The Author Interviews
“BOMB’s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available.”
–Bustle.com
“Bomb: The Author Interviews brings together a selection of these conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazine’s interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution. ”