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Magic Hours : Essays on Creators and Creation, Paperback by Bissell, Tom, Bra...
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780525433941
- Book Title
- Magic Hours
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Psychology, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Creative Ability, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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For more than a decade, award-winning writer (and coauthor of The Disaster Artist) Tom Bissell has explored questions at the heart of creative endeavor in astute, remarkable, and often hilarious essays. What are sitcoms for, exactly? Can art be both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others vanish? These pieces cover Bissell's best writing on writers, filmmakers, actors, and artists. From Portland, where he visits a midnight screening of The Room, to the Los Angeles set of The Big Bang Theory, to an editorial meeting in New York from which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world, Bissell's journeys make for unforgettable reading: Above all, he illustrates that to create something, anything, is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. Book jacket.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525433945
ISBN-13
9780525433941
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235455212
Product Key Features
Book Title
Magic Hours
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Creative Ability, Essays
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Psychology, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bf408.B488 2018
Reviews
"[Tom Bissell] writes these essays with a storyteller's eye for detail." -- New York Times Book Review "Bissell writes astutely, smartly, and with acerbic candor." -- The Boston Globe "A highly gratifying literary experience." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Sharply observed, lushly descriptive and often extremely funny." -- Salon "Elating." -- Guernica "Tom Bissell is at his best in this terrific collection." -- Geoff Dyer "Every one of Bissell's pieces is like some great, transfixing documentary you stumble on while channel-surfing late at night--something you feel, in that moment, a kind of gratitude toward for redeeming your sleeplessness. Considered alongside his fiction, this new collection makes clear that Tom Bissell is one of our most interesting and ambitious writers." -- John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead "Bissell ( Extra Lives ) peels back the layers of what it means to create and the toll creation often takes on its practitioners.... Never pedantic or self-congratulatory, Bissell says that he never set out to write nonfiction, and perhaps it's this backdoor approach that makes his observations on craft and the many avenues that lead to the written word all the more powerful." -- Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) "A whip-smart, occasionally pugnacious collection of essays on culture from a wide-ranging critic....Bissell can tear into his subjects with a ferocity and brutal wit that recalls Dwight Macdonald...Stellar cultural writing--Bissell has the knowledge and wit to earn his provocations." -- Kirkus (Starred Review) "Bissell's essays are brutally honest, thoughtful and entertaining to the nth degree." -- Portland Book Review "Entertaining, informative and exquisitely readable." -- Shelf Awareness "Full of beauty." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-288391
Dewey Decimal
153.35
Dewey Edition
23
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