Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future.\ Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. From Mikhail Gorbachev to Alfred Hitchcock to David Bowie, Bradbury’s sway on contemporary culture is towering. Acclaimed biographer and Bradbury scholar...
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A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future.Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. From Mikhail Gorbachev to Alfred Hitchcock to David Bowie, Bradbury’s sway on contemporary culture is towering. Acclaimed biographer and Bradbury scholar Sam Weller has spent more than a decade interviewing the author; the fascinating conversations that emerge cast a high-definition portrait of a creative genius and a futurist who longs for yesterday. Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews is the definitive collection of interviews with an American icon.Library JournalRay Bradbury biographer Weller (fiction, Columbia Coll., Chicago; The Bradbury Chronicles) offers a thematically arranged collection of selections from his several interviews with Bradbury over the last ten years. Bradbury, who turns 90 this month, has been a prolific and influential writer, chiefly in the fantasy and science fiction genres, most famous probably for his Farenheit 451. Chapter titles here, such as "Famous Friends," "Politics," "Writing and Creativity," and "Faith," indicate the range of topics covered. Bradbury shares his wealth of experience, from his earliest memory (he says it is of his own birth), notables whom he has met (from George Burns to Mikhail Gorbachev), and his own writing. Weller is the quintessential interviewer who asks probing questions, then gets out of the way so that readers will have the feeling that Bradbury is talking to them. Bradbury comes across as honest, opinionated, passionate, and childlike. He sets aside two hours a day for writing, not nearly enough time, one would think, for all of the ideas still percolating in his head. VERDICT This book will please ardent Bradbury fans and those just looking into his work. Recommended.—Anthony Pucci, Notre Dame H.S., Elmira, NY
\ Library JournalRay Bradbury biographer Weller (fiction, Columbia Coll., Chicago; The Bradbury Chronicles) offers a thematically arranged collection of selections from his several interviews with Bradbury over the last ten years. Bradbury, who turns 90 this month, has been a prolific and influential writer, chiefly in the fantasy and science fiction genres, most famous probably for his Farenheit 451. Chapter titles here, such as "Famous Friends," "Politics," "Writing and Creativity," and "Faith," indicate the range of topics covered. Bradbury shares his wealth of experience, from his earliest memory (he says it is of his own birth), notables whom he has met (from George Burns to Mikhail Gorbachev), and his own writing. Weller is the quintessential interviewer who asks probing questions, then gets out of the way so that readers will have the feeling that Bradbury is talking to them. Bradbury comes across as honest, opinionated, passionate, and childlike. He sets aside two hours a day for writing, not nearly enough time, one would think, for all of the ideas still percolating in his head. VERDICT This book will please ardent Bradbury fans and those just looking into his work. Recommended.—Anthony Pucci, Notre Dame H.S., Elmira, NY\ \
