Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Essay, “The Pomegranate Architect” — theparisreview.org

Becoming the world’s only accidental architect. From the cover of Sam Weller’s Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. I first met Ray Bradbury while writing a feature story for the Chicago Tribune magazine in 2000, the year he turned eighty, and we quickly bonded over our shared childhood experiences (roughly fifty years apart) growing up in northern Illinois, as well as in Southern California. We had a remarkable number of things in common and a similar sense of curiosity and a joie de vivre, and we began to work together closely, as I became his authorized biographer.

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