Out of Nothing, Everything Conversations with Larry Harvey

by Greenwald, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781734965964
• ISBN10: 1734965967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-07-29
• Publisher: BookBaby
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Summary

Larry Harvey (1948-2018) was the founder of Burning Man, the celebrated and celebratory cultural movement that started as a spontaneous happening on a San Francisco beach in 1986. It has now grown into an annual pop-up city of 70,000 in the Nevada desert, and a year-round community of creative collaborators and passionate volunteers on six continents.

Starting in October of 2013, writer and monologist Jeff Greenwald conducted a series of interviews with Larry. Greenwald, the best-selling author of works including Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World, originally pitched the project as a feature-length interview piece for The Sun. His editors sent him back for another round of interviews in 2014, but ultimately decided not to publish the piece. Jeff later gifted this manuscript of these and further 2015 interviews with Larry to Burning Man Project, the nonprofit organization that was established by Larry and his co-founders to operate the Nevada event and support the ongoing growth and extension of the culture.

Author Biography

Jeff Greenwald is the author of seven books, including Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World (for which he created the Web's first travel blog). His stories have appeared in Wired, Smithsonian, Outside, Craftsmanship, the New York Times Magazine, and on NPR's Snap Judgment. Jeff's critically acclaimed solo show, "Strange Travel Suggestions," premiered in 2003. He first attended Burning Man in 2000.