In a few words
With a new introduction by Salman Rushdie
Indispensable reading for anybody interested in how writers work and why writing continues to work.
If you want to get acquainted with your favourite writer, you could go to a reading or a book-signing. But to really know them, you should read a Paris Review interview.
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Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered together, ‘a bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about their prose.’ (Observer)
This new edition is introduced by Salman Rushdie and includes interviews with:
William Styron
Marianne Moore
Ezra Pound
E.B. White
P.G. Wodehouse
John Ashbery
Philip Roth
Maya Angelou
Orhan Pamuk
V.S. Naipaul
Stephen Sondheim
Haruki Murakami
David Grossman
Marilynne Robinson
I have been fascinated by the Paris Review interviews for as long as I can remember. Taken together they form perhaps the finest available inquiry into the 'how' of literature, in many ways a more interesting question than 'why'.
Salman Rushdie
An embarrassment of big names...As an insight into what the most famous writers of the last 50 years would like you to think of them, the Paris Review Interviews have many charms beside their illustrious roll-call.
The greatest hits of the earlier series, as well as providing a more durable and accessible home for recent interviews....the interviewees are engaging anecdotalists and autobiographers.
A kind of a masterclass for aspiring writers.
