When did the Radiant History begin?
The Radiance historians have an answer.
The first book to introduce the concept of the Radiance, which began in the early 1960s, has now been published.
The title The Radiants Greatest Hits from the Archives of the World is a compilation of everything from early 20th century radio to the internet to radio dramas to the works of John Cage and the late James Joyce.
It’s a fascinating read, with a mix of scholarly research and personal interviews.
We sat down with James Hutton, author of the book and editor-in-chief of Radiant, to find out what made this a seminal work.
How did you first hear about the Radiants greatness?
There’s a line in a book that you could read that says, “The Radiants greatest hits from the archives of the world are a wonderful collection of stories from the past.”
I remember being fascinated by that line and hearing it mentioned in some form or another over the years.
I thought, “This is just too good to be true.”
I knew it would be an incredible work and had been looking forward to reading it for a long time.
I was at a dinner party with my wife, her friends, and a few colleagues when someone started talking about the book.
I was looking at a lot of the titles and had no idea what it was all about.
I knew there was something special about the idea of the RADIANT Historia, but I had never heard of it until I started reading it.
It was one of those books where you’re like, “Oh, wow!
This is great.”
It was a fascinating project.
We went back and forth over the course of three months and the book came out in October of 2006.
It really captured the zeitgeist.
It took us a while to realize that it wasn’t just an academic project.
It wasn’t some kind of literary work.
It had to be written for the general public.
We started to put together the book as we were finishing the last book in the series.
There were four different versions of it and we would just go through them one by one and decide which one we liked the best.
It all came together really quickly and there were a lot more people involved than we had anticipated.
How many editions did you print?
About 15,000 copies.
There’s no way I could’ve made this happen in a week, but we had a lot going on, including a lot from the archive of the great, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
There was a time in my life when I would’ve preferred a thousand copies.
But I think we were able to keep that number to about 1,000.
The book was released in six editions, but they all came out of the same printing press.
Each book was signed and numbered by the author and published by a different company.
How many books do you have signed and which editions?
About 1,500.
I think that’s the same number that you see on the back of the original book.
How long has the book been out there?
We’re at the end of it.
We’re really close to the end.
The world has been reading it since 2005.
The last book came back in the summer of 2007.
How has it impacted your work?
When you first read it, it was just a very short text, but it has a huge impact.
It gave me the confidence to say, “We can do this, we can do that.”
It has given me a lot to think about.
There are lots of different things I’ve learned about the past, from the history of radio to writing novels to the way we communicate with each other, to the relationships we have.
I really appreciate it for the way it’s changing how we interact with each, as well as each other.
It’s made me realize that there are so many people around the world who are just doing the same thing, just writing about the same things and having fun with it.
They have nothing to do with the Radiantes great work, so they don’t need to.
It gives them a great outlet.
We think that the Radiances greatest hits should be celebrated and cherished for what they are.
They’re not just a book.
They are a series of stories that have been told over the past 150 years.
That’s what makes it such an important work.
What we hope people will appreciate is that they can get into it and discover new stories and discover a lot about the world.
What are some of your favorite Radiant books?
There are so, so many of them.
We hope people get a chance to read it and enjoy it.
I can’t think of any Radiants book that I wouldn’t want to write a book about.
It would have to be the last Radiant book.
There must be one!
There’s also one other book that we want to get into