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_b.B488 2018
100 1 _aBissell, Tom,
_d1974-
245 1 0 _aMagic hours :
_bessays on creators and creation /
_cTom Bissell.
250 _aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a331 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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386 _aAmericans
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500 _a"Originally published in slightly different form in the United States by Believer Books, a division of McSweeney's, San Francisco, in 2012."--Title page verso.
505 0 0 _tUnflowered Aloes --
_tEscanaba's magic hour --
_tGrief and the outsider --
_tWriting about writing about writing --
_tNo dying light --
_tRules of engagement --
_tEuphorias of Perrier --
_tStill rising --
_tThe secret mainstream --
_tKapuscinski's last journey --
_tSymbolic value --
_tGreat and terrible truths --
_tCinema crudité --
_tA simple medium --
_tInvisible girl --
_tThe theory and practice of not giving a shit --
_tGoddesses and dreams --
_tEverything about everything.
520 _a"For more than a decade, award-winning writer (and co-author of The Disaster Artist) Tom Bissell has explored questions at the heart of the 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 capapble of magic."--Back coer.
650 0 _aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650 0 _aCreative ability.
655 0 _aEssays.
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