A review by 33rainbowlane
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell

reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.5

The writing is undeniably good, and what kept me reading. However, I will say that as a woman, I felt the sort of disquiet that can come from reading a book in which a white man talks mainly about other white men, in that way that shows that maybe they haven’t thought a lot about a world that revolves around anything else. I enjoyed hearing about lots of creatives I’ve really never known about, but I gotta say, based on the essays alone (being unfamiliar with their work myself), I found myself often thinking that if they had been women, the narrative around them would have been decidedly different. In fact, I wondered how many of them would be talked about at all, had they not been men. In that regard, and several others, it was thought provoking.