Sam Weller's new book: RAY BRADBURY: THE LAST INTERVIEW and other essays, is now available. The link to it on amazon.com is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Ray-Brad...erview%2C+Sam+Weller

Thanks for the link, Mr. D! Mine is in the mail. Some new RB insights are always enjoyable!

Yep, Mine is on order, too.

Arrival date today.
Most glad, but a bit sad too.

I got mine today. Some very good dialog in these. Because Ray is so compatible with Sam, Sam is able to get some great conversation. Well worth purchasing.

Some fun stuff here. Classic Bradbury on living fully and writing for yourself, along with some of his comments on influences of Steinbeck and others on his writing. Some good stuff.

Agreed, Mr. Dark. Delighted to learn more about Mr. Bradbury, and hear again about his life long loves for his literary roots.
Wonderful to know that "The Toynbee Convector" was one of his personal favorites. Often thought that if he had added to The Vintage Bradbury it might be that story.

I am reading the "Introduction" to Mr. Weller's The Last Interview and Other Conversations, as I type! Arrived today.

I recall, as the final 30-40 pages of Listen to the Echoes were reached, I purposefully began slowing down my page turning. I did not want the conversations to end. So, I will read Mr. Weller's Last Interview with an even more methodical pace. Mr. B's Voice was with us to enjoy for decades. Now, we will need to fully appreciate his memorable words!

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Yep. It is right to savor these to enjoy the last wisps of inspiration.

Wisps is a good word.

"...I will read Mr. Weller's Last Interview with an even more methodical pace."

It didn't happen.

I started and finished, cover to cover. I became enthralled by the conversation taking place. All of the memories, lessons, metaphors, images... came rushing off the pages. It was one Bradbury Moment after another. I seemed to hear Mr. B's voice as I read his responses. I realized I had about a dozen pages left and it was too late to become methodical. I had to know how the story ended. Alas, with Mr. Weller's fond expressions of his last visits.

Somehow, though Mr. Bradbury so very much wanted to live to be one hundred years old, knowing Civil War heroes and spacemen was not a bad run at all.

So, a tip of a glass filled with Dandelion Wine. A walk through a pumpkin patch that covers acres. A word with a lightning rod salesman who ambles into town. Dreams of Red Mars shining bright in a star-filled sky. Laughter of innocent, completely alive children climbing trees, sneaking into carnivals, and setting adrift fire-balloons into a summer night...

100yrs?! Much better ~ Mr. Bradbury, Lives Forever!

The essay 'The Pomegranate Architect' by Ray Bradbury from Ray Bradbury : The Last Interview and Other Conversations is now posted on The Paris Review website.
http://www.theparisreview.org/...megranate-architect/