title: Bomb: The Author Interviews
author: BOMB Magazine
description: <b><u>Praise for <i>BOMB: The Author Interviews</i></u></b><br /> <br />"<i>Bomb: The Author Interviews</i> brings together a selection of conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazines interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution."<br /><b><i> The Washington Post</i></b><br /><br />"Lets readers into the room for conversations with Martin Amis, Junot Daz, Jennifer Egan, Sharon Olds, and others about the craft of writing." <br /><b><i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br /><br />"'Inspire' might be a thin word in our cynical literary present, but dare I say that reading these conversations made me want to handwrite excerpts on index cards and lean them against books on my shelves."<br /><b>The Millions</b><br /><br />"Rare insight into the creative processes, feelings and work habits of contemporary prose writers and poets . . . These fascinating, in-depth and intimate conversations between notable writers delve into writing as a craft and as a calling."<br /><b>Shelf Awareness</b><br /><br />"<i>BOMB</i>s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available."<br /><b>Bustle.com<br /><br /></b>"These arenot your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at awriter, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity . . . Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature."<br /><i><b>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</b> </i><br /> <br />"Through the diverse range of voices represented, the book affords a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world's best practitioners of poetry and prose."<br /><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, STARRED Review</b><br /><br />"Significant . . . [an] unusual and very engaging collection."<br /><b><i>Kirkus Reviews<br /><br /></i></b><i>BOMB</i>gives us conversation distilled into dream conversation, talk that transcends talk, thought that digs beneath transient impressions to get at the essence, the meaning, the purpose, the experience of the writing process. There is something to be remembered and learned from every one of the conversations gathered here. Read them for pleasure, for entertainment, for insight, and for clues to the mysteryto the hard labor and the profound satisfactionsof what writers do.<br /><b>Francine Prose, from her introduction<br /></b>
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  The Explosion  
  A friend of mine is an expert in detonating bombs; whenever there is a bomb that 
  is about to explode, they call him. He goes there, picks the right wires to be 
  removed then detonates the bomb. This friend of mine once told me a very weird 
  story that happened to him; one day, while working on a bomb, he determined 
  that there was no way he could stop it and that they had to run. Fortunately, the 
  bomb was in a junk yard full of metals, so if left to explode, no one would get 
  hurt.   
   
  They all ran and heard the sound of the explosion behind them. After that they 
  went back to the site where the bomb exploded, only to find that the explosion 
  had shaped all the metal pieces in the junk yard in a way that created small 
  models of the Eiffel tour, CN tower and the Egyptian pyramids.  The explosion 
  was organized in such a way that every little piece