false 11473 1 <div><div>From William Faulkner's famous reply, "The writer's only responsibility is to his art," to James Salter's confession--"What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish"--<i>The Paris Review</i> has elicited many of the most arresting, illuminating, and revealing discussions of life and craft from the greatest writers of our age. Under its original editor, George Plimpton, <i>The Paris Review</i> is credited with inventing the modern literary interview, and more than half a century later the magazine remains the master of the form. By turns intimate, instructive, gossipy, curmudgeonly, elegant, hilarious, cunning, and consoling, the<i> Paris Review</i> interviews have come to be celebrated as classic literary works in their own right. Now, from the treasure trove of the archives, Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch has selected twenty of the most essential interviews for the first of a three volume set. Here are Ernest Hemmingway, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Bishop, and many other novelists, poets, playwrights, memoirists speaking for the ages, with surprising candor, about all that matters most to them.</div></div> 13921 17 10 2006 The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review Interviews) total:194|5:90|4:82|3:20|2:2|1:0| 194 842 359 45 4 1 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 20:44:28 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 20:58:10 -0700 2008
Moving on to the second volume soon..

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Nov. 20, 2008

A Gentleman Among Men

George Plimpton Was All That and Then Some

By John Hood

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I thought Hemingway was showing signs of his mental illness, and he see...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 20 21:02:45 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 12:10:24 -0700 2009 If you're a writer or big lit fan and interested in what the BIG WRITERS of the West in the 20th Century thought ( their writing techniques,what thoughts on their writing peers,favour...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 08 01:26:26 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 01:28:47 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 30 11:29:52 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 11:47:01 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 11:28:24 -0700 2007
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Hemmingway: Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11473