Magic hours : essays on creators and creation /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bissell, Tom, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, [2018]
Edition:	First Vintage Books edition.
Subjects:	Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creative ability. American essays.

Table of Contents:

Unflowered Aloes
Escanaba's magic hour
Grief and the outsider
Writing about writing about writing
No dying light
Rules of engagement
Euphorias of Perrier
Still rising
The secret mainstream
Kapuscinski's last journey
Symbolic value
Great and terrible truths
Cinema crudité
A simple medium
Invisible girl
The theory and practice of not giving a shit
Goddesses and dreams
Everything about everything.