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Essays on Creators and Creation
Believer Books
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 1936365766 EAN: 9781936365760 Kindle: B007VC48IK Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell
explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He
takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the
first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David
Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film
of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula
Fox's work was relaunched into the world. Originally
published in magazines such as The Believer, The
New Yorker, and Harper's, these essays represent
ten years of Bissell's best writing on every aspect of
creation—be it Iraq War documentaries or video-game
character voices—and will provoke as much thought as they do
laughter.
What are sitcoms for exactly? Can art be
both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others
vanish? Bissell's exploration of these questions make for
gripping, unforgettable reading.
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