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Biographical note
Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review in 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003.
Indispensable reading for anybody interested in how writers work and why writing continues to work.
* Daily Telegraph *
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.
* The Times *
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 <i>Paris Review Interviews </i>have many charms beside their illustrious roll-call.
* Prospect *
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.
* Observer *
A kind of a masterclass for aspiring writers.
* London Review of Books *
The <i>Paris Review</i> interviews have always provided the best look into the minds and work ethics of great writers and when read together constitute the closest thing to an MFA that you can get while sitting alone on your couch.
- Dave Eggers,
This is a delight.
* GQ *
The final volume of The Paris Review Interviews has just been published and writers can once again be reminded that we are not the first to have ridiculous ambitions, doubts and difficulties. The four volumes together will make a generous gift for anyone who writes or reads. One volume would be not too shabby either.
- Peter Carey, * Guardian *
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
"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."
The Times
From Philip Roth's claim that "a writer needs his poisons" and "the antidote is often a book", to Marilynne Robinson's confession that "I really am incapable of discipline. I write when something makes a strong claim on me", The Paris Review has elicited revelatory thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets and playwrights. Why does Maya Angelou write with a Bible and a bottle of sherry at her side? What inspires Haruki Murakami's surrealist imagination? Why did Jack Kerouac embrace haiku? In the pages of The Paris Review, writers give more than simple answers, they offer uncommon candour, depth and wit in interviews that have become the gold standard of the literary Q&A. With an introduction by Salman Rushdie, The Paris Review Interviews vol. 4 brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including William Styron, Orhan Pamuk, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Paul Auster, P.G. Wodehouse and more.
"A bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about prose." Observer
"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 besides their illustrious roll-call." Prospect
"Indispensable reading for anybody interested in how writers work and why writing continues to work." Daily Telegraph
Indispensable reading for anybody interested in how writers work and why writing continues to work.
* Daily Telegraph *
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.
* The Times *
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 <i>Paris Review Interviews </i>have many charms beside their illustrious roll-call.
* Prospect *
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.
* Observer *
A kind of a masterclass for aspiring writers.
* London Review of Books *
The <i>Paris Review</i> interviews have always provided the best look into the minds and work ethics of great writers and when read together constitute the closest thing to an MFA that you can get while sitting alone on your couch.
- Dave Eggers,
This is a delight.
* GQ *
The final volume of The Paris Review Interviews has just been published and writers can once again be reminded that we are not the first to have ridiculous ambitions, doubts and difficulties. The four volumes together will make a generous gift for anyone who writes or reads. One volume would be not too shabby either.
- Peter Carey, * Guardian *
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
"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."
The Times
From Philip Roth's claim that "a writer needs his poisons" and "the antidote is often a book", to Marilynne Robinson's confession that "I really am incapable of discipline. I write when something makes a strong claim on me", The Paris Review has elicited revelatory thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets and playwrights. Why does Maya Angelou write with a Bible and a bottle of sherry at her side? What inspires Haruki Murakami's surrealist imagination? Why did Jack Kerouac embrace haiku? In the pages of The Paris Review, writers give more than simple answers, they offer uncommon candour, depth and wit in interviews that have become the gold standard of the literary Q&A. With an introduction by Salman Rushdie, The Paris Review Interviews vol. 4 brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including William Styron, Orhan Pamuk, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Paul Auster, P.G. Wodehouse and more.
"A bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about prose." Observer
"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 besides their illustrious roll-call." Prospect
"Indispensable reading for anybody interested in how writers work and why writing continues to work." Daily Telegraph