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Also by Tom Bissell:

Magic Hours, April 2012
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Extra Lives, June 2010
Hardcover

MAGIC HOURS
By: Tom Bissell

Essays on Creators and Creation

Believer Books
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1936365766
EAN: 9781936365760
Kindle: B007VC48IK
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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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On The Media - November 24, 2012