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The Paris Review - Interviews Archive with great writers of our times

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The Paris Review - Interviews Archive with great writers of our times
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"Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview. More than fifty years—and more than three hundred interviews—later, the archive continues to grow with each new issue of the magazine. (...) In tandem with this publishing project, we offer here online a complete index of every interview ever published, searchable by author and by date—as well as a substantial sampling of the archive’s finest interviews, posted in their entirety. Taken together, these conversations with novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, biographers, journalists, and critics constitute what Salman Rushdie calls “the finest available inquiry into the ‘how’ of literature.” (...) Interview series offers authors a rare opportunity to discuss their life and art at length; they have responded with some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature. Among the interviewees are William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Joan Didion, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, and Lorrie Moore. In the words of one critic, it is “one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world.”
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    • Lawrence Elliott MD Lawrence Elliott MD
      6 months ago


      I think you'll especially like this ;) Laurent
      art world

    • Lawrence Elliott MD Lawrence Elliott MD
      6 months ago


      Americans have significantly added to field of literature in ways that have helped change the course of our nation - it challenged the color code, it challenged the woman's right to vote, it challenged the woman's right to work, it challenged multi-racial couples and marriage - it brought freedom to the oppressed, it security liberty for wives - that they were not the slaves to their husbands, it opened the eye of every young American - girl and boy - that they could do and be anything they wanted to be - these writers extol in remarkable ways the American dream ... Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...was theirs, and protected under the Constitution of the United States. We still have a ways to go still with equal pay for women, and gay and lesbian rights and marriage with equal medical benefits, psychiatric treatment for child in health policies commensurate with heart attack, and so forth.

    • Lawrence Elliott MD Lawrence Elliott MD
      6 months ago


      The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Only three authors have won the Pulitzer Prize twice, Booth Tarkington for The Magnificent Andersons (1919) and Alice Adams (1922) and William Faulkner for A Fable (1955) and The Reivers (1963) and John Updike for Rabbit is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1991).
      The following distinguished group of NOVELISTS AND WRITERS has won The Nobel Prize for Literature:
      Toni Morrison (1993) - Well-known author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and several other amazing books.
      Czeslaw Milosz (Poland/USA) (1980) - Polish-born poet who spent most of World War II living in Warsaw and writing for the underground press.
      Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) - Won for his tragicomic tales of Jewish life in prewar Poland.
      Saul Bellow (1976) - Writes lucid, semi-autobiographical novels, the most recent of which is Ravelstein.
      John Steinbeck (1962) - Still sells thousands of books, including the high school staple, Of Mice and Men.
      Ernest Hemingway (1954) - "Papa" wrote in his acceptance remarks, "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life."
      William Faulkner (1949) - The godfather of Southern literature explored his own imaginary territory, Yoknapatawpha County.
      Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The author of The Good Earth published over seventy books, many of them dealing with peasant life in rural China.
      Eugene O'Neill (1936) - Wove the agony of his profoundly dysfunctional childhood into several classic plays, including Long Day's Journey into Night.
      Sinclair Lewis (1930) - The author of Elmer Gantry and Babbit wrote human comedies inspired by Balzac and Dickens.
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