{"product_id":"the-paris-review-interviews-i-16-celebrated-interviews-paperback","title":"The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Gourevitch\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Picador Paperback Original\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.--Margaret Atwood \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational, to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book--I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm--\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognized as classic works of literature, an essential and definitive record of the writing life. They have won the coveted George Polk Award and have been a contender for the Pulitzer Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e former editor Philip Gourevitch introduces an entirely original selection of sixteen of the most celebrated interviews. Often startling, always engaging, these encounters contain an immense scope of intelligence, personality, experience, and wit from the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Rebecca West, and Billy Wilder. This is an indispensable book for all writers and readers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A. S. Byatt, T. C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann, and many other writers who have given us the great literature of the past half century. Some of the magazine's greatest hits have been collected by Picador in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Book of People with Problems\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Gourevitch\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003e a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eA Cold Case\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45328230219878,"sku":"9780312361754","price":43.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K3FoMVhoWVN6cm5mNmZkbHBXN2RxQT09.webp?v=1774367360","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-paris-review-interviews-i-16-celebrated-interviews-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}