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Bomb: The Author Interviews

By Bomb Magazine and Betsy Sussler and Mary Gaitskill and Junot Díaz and Roberto Bolaño and Kathy Acker and Hari Kunzru and Dennis Cooper and Jonathan Franzen and Sharon Olds and Amy Hempel and Edwidge Danticat and Tobias Wolff and Ben Marcus and A.M. Homes and Kenneth Goldsmith and Ben Lerner and Maryse Condé and Álvaro Mutis and Paula Fox and Han Ong and Sam Lipsyte and Jeffrey Eugenides and Kimiko Hahn and Dale Peck and Rachel Kushner and Heidi Julavits and Wayne Koestenbaum and Justin Taylor and Adam Fitzgerald and Wilson Harris and Lynne Tillman and Francisco Goldman and Oscar Hijuelos and Blake Butler and Geoff Dyer and Frederic Tuten and Lydia Davis and Jim Shepard and Lore Segal and Nuruddin Farah and Jennifer Egan
Bomb: The Author Interviews by Bomb Magazine and Betsy Sussler and Mary Gaitskill and Junot Díaz and Roberto Bolaño and Kathy Acker and Hari Kunzru and Dennis Cooper and Jonathan Franzen and Sharon Olds and Amy Hempel and Edwidge Danticat and Tobias Wolff and Ben Marcus and A.M. Homes and Kenneth Goldsmith and Ben Lerner and Maryse Condé and Álvaro Mutis and Paula Fox and Han Ong and Sam Lipsyte and Jeffrey Eugenides and Kimiko Hahn and Dale Peck and Rachel Kushner and Heidi Julavits and Wayne Koestenbaum and Justin Taylor and Adam Fitzgerald and Wilson Harris and Lynne Tillman and Francisco Goldman and Oscar Hijuelos and Blake Butler and Geoff Dyer and Frederic Tuten and Lydia Davis and Jim Shepard and Lore Segal and Nuruddin Farah and Jennifer Egan digital book - Fable

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Publisher Description

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews, showcasing writers, performers, actors, musicians, painters, and architects. The founders, a group of New York City–based artists, wanted a public space for art-makers to talk to each other about their work without the interference of critics or journalists.
 
Thirty years later comes this anthology: an addictively insightful collection of thirty-five interviews with some of the world’s most thought-provoking, funny, profound, compelling authors. It includes literary luminaries such as Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz, Sharon Olds, Amy Hempel, Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sapphire, Edwidge Danticat, and Jennifer Egan, among many others, as well as an introduction by Francine Prose.
 
These authors speak frankly about the joys and the pain that inform their work, the influence of family, ambition, criticism, and the sinking, thrilling knowledge of their own mortality. This is Bomb Magazine’s gift to readers: a glimpse into the minds that created the books which informed you, challenged you, yanked on your heartstrings and touched your soul.
 
Bomb: The Author Interviews brings together a selection of conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazine’s interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution.” —The Washington Post
 
BOMB’s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available.” —Bustle
 
“These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity . . . Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

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About Bomb Magazine

BOMB Magazine, a breakout publication born of the early eighties New York's downtown art scene, offers intimate and outspoken artist-to-artist conversations. For thirty-two years, BOMB has kept an eager readership informed of and engaged with the most important innovators in art, literature, music, theater, and film. BOMB offers a quarterly magazine and website with a searchable online archive of over twelve hundred interviews, eight hundred essays, podcasts, videos, and daily blog posts.

Betsy Sussler

Edwidge Danticat

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Álvaro Mutis

Paula Fox

Paula Fox was a notable figure in contemporary American literature. She earned wide acclaim for her children’s books, as well as for her novels and memoirs for adults. Born in New York City on April 22, 1923, her early years were turbulent. She moved from upstate New York to Cuba to California, and from one school to another. An avid reader at a young age, her love of literature sustained her through the difficulties of an unsettled childhood. At first, Fox taught high school, writing only when occasion permitted. Soon, however, she was able to devote herself to writing full-time, but kept a foot in the classroom by teaching creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and the State University of New York.
 
In her novels for young readers, Fox fearlessly tackles difficult topics such as death, race, and illness. She has received many distinguished literary awards including a Newbery Medal for The Slave Dancer (1974), a National Book Award for A Place Apart (1983), and a Newbery Honor for One-Eyed Cat (1984). Worldwide recognition for Fox’s contribution to literature for children came with the presentation of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978.
 
Fox’s novels for adults have also been highly praised. Her 2002 memoir, Borrowed Finery, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, and in 2013 the Paris Review presented her with the Hadada Award, honoring her contribution to literature and the writing community. In 2011, Fox was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
 
Fox passed away in 2017 at the age of ninety-three.

Dale Peck

Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he teaches in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program.

Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum has published over a dozen books on such subjects as hotels, Harpo Marx, humiliation, Jackie Onassis, and opera. His latest book of prose is My 1980s & Other Essays (2013); his latest book of poetry is Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (2012). Koestenbaum’s first solo exhibition of paintings took place at White Columns gallery in New York during the fall of 2012. He is a distinguished professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Wilson Harris

Lydia Davis

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Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard (b. 1956) is the author of four short story collections and seven novels, most recently The Book of Aron, which has been shortlisted for both the Kirkus Prize and the American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal. Originally from Connecticut, Shepard now lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is the J. Leland Miller Professor of English at Williams College, where he teaches creative writing and film. He won the Story Prize for his collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Shepard’s stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, among other publications; five have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and one for a Pushcart Prize.

Lore Segal

Lore Segal was born in Vienna in 1928, and was educated at the University of London. A finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for FictionSegal has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PEN/O. Henry Awards, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A recognized author of children’s books, Segal has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and Harper’s Magazine, among others. She lives in New York City.

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