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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847670334
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847670335
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 150,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.' Margaret Atwood 'If you only 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 'The most remarkable and extensive interviewing project we possess.' New York Times"

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Volume One received blanket review coverage and was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Word about "The Paris Review" is spreading more and more widely. Canongate is now the UK distributor of "The Paris Review Magazine". Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.This is a second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines. The encounters between "The Paris Review" and the world's leading writers have elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it is essential reading for anyone who cares about writers and writing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Endlessly fascinating and hugely entertaining, 16 Jan 2007
By Leo McMarley (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
I'm relatively new to the Paris Review (which was founded back in 1953) but I am now a complete convert having read this first volume of interviews cover to cover and having started to read the magazine itself.
The Writers at Work interviews have been described as being the DNA of literature and I think this is an apt description. No one who is interested in the creative process of writing or in any of the 16 writers in this diverse collection (from Borges to Didion to Eliot to Bellow to Rebecca West to Bill Wilder to Capote to Vonnegut) could fail to be enthralled by this book. It really does reveal the true art of the interview, a skill that seems to have been pretty much lost if our contemporary magazines and newspapers are anything to go by. These are genuinely in depth and are intimate in a way that is rare but highly revealing. I would urge you to buy this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Enlightening, 19 Mar 2007
By S. Murphy (Worcester) - See all my reviews
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Goodness me. I have never had such value for money. This a truly erudite, careful and candid masterpiece of journalism. The absolute standouts are the Robert Gottlieb chapter which is like an autopsy on writing itself. Borges is an impish delight, Hemmingway a prickly macho man-child, Parker weary of her wit (a devil sick of sin indeed)and Vonnegut human and warm. Saul Bellow left me cold, too prim, but page for page this volume is worth every penny. Buy. Buy buy buy!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect, but highly recommended. , 8 May 2007
By Harun Mushod (UK) - See all my reviews
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I'm hooked. At its best , this is a fantastic resource for aspiring writers. The book consists of 16 Q and A interviews (well, one of them doesn't strictly speaking follow that format) with authors of fiction (10), poetry (3), non-fiction (1), and screenplays (1) and one editor. The strongest and weakest examples are both from people I had not heard of before. The Rebecca West interview was long, uninformative about the craft and just dull. It should never have been published, let alone collected as one of "the best Paris Review interviews".

The strongest (and the one that moved away from the normal Q and A format) was from editor Robert Gottlieb. It included contributions from authors he had edited, such as LeCarre, Lessing, Morrison and Caro, (as well as an agent and one of his assistant editors during his stint as editor of the New Yorker) to which he added his thoughts about editing. It is fascinating about writing in general, the impact of editors and the sometimes tempestuous relationship between authors and editors.

Other highlights were Truman Capote, Billy Wilder, Kurt Vonnegut and, surprisingly for me given my relative lack of interest in reading or writing poetry, all three poet interviews (T S Elliott, Elizabeth Bishop and Jack Gilbert).

Can't wait for volumes two and three.
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