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Bolano, Roberto; Diaz, Junot; Egan, Jennifer; Franzen, Jonathan; Kushner, Rachel & Others : Bomb: The Author Interviews

Soho Press, New York City, NY, 2014

ISBN 1616953799

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 460 pages. Retrospective collection of author interviews. The best author-interview collection of its kind of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents, in one elegant collectible volume, the BOMB Magazine author interviews. Unique in the history of this fascinating and new literary genre: There were no formal, fully transcribed author interviews until the 20th century. It would have been nice if there was one between Hawthorne and Melville, for example, although we do have some of the magnificent letters they wrote each other. Now, we have two "similar-yet-dissimilar-at-the-same-time" authors talking about each other's work, other writers, and other shared interests. The pairings of the interviews are dazzling in both their originality and appropriateness. "Drawing on the first 30 years of BOMB Magazine. Brings together some of the greatest figures of world literature for a brilliant collection of sharp, insightful, and intimate conversations. Here we have a conversation with Jonathan Franzen, still an unkown author, on the eve of the publication of 'The Corrections'; and one with Roberto Bolano, near the end of his life. Lydia Davis and Francine Prose break down the intricacies of Davis' methods. Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz discuss the power of Caribbean diasporic fiction" (Publisher's blurb). And that's just for starters. An absolute "must-have" title for Modern First and contemporary literature collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Jennifer Egan. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the 2019 Chicago Humanities Festival Souvenir Program during which event her signature was obtained. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked (even if the dealers do not always say so). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Some of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO "WRITERS ON THE AIR" AND "BY THE BOOK" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1616953799.

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