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Title: <\/strong>The Paris Review Interviews, I<\/p>\n

By:<\/strong> Philip Gourevitch (introduction)<\/p>\n

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The Paris Review interviews – long, intimate conversations with the leading writers of the age about their craft, their reading, their work habits – began to appear in 1953, and over half a century these encounters have become as essential to literature as the work of the interviewees themselves.<\/p>\n

The latest collection of interviews is called The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1<\/a><\/i>, and is part of a proposed three-volume collection of the best Paris Review interviews. The surprise here is that it is not the luminaries – TS Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow – who speak the most interestingly, but some of the lesser-known figures.\n<\/p>\n

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The best and most educative interview by far is the one with the Knopf and former New Yorker<\/i> editor Robert Gottlieb on “The Art of Editing”. Not only does Gottlieb talk illuminatingly about all the good things an editor can do for a writer, but many of the writers he edited – Toni Morrison, John le Carre, Joseph Heller, Michael Crichton – pitch in with their experiences of having their manuscripts vetted by him. The whole thing reads like a very good play, with the characters supplying profound truths about writing rather than life.<\/p>\n

And the warmest and funniest presence in the book is the screenwriter Billy Wilder (The Apartment<\/i>, Some Like It Hot<\/i>) reminiscing about his days as an immigrant and an apprentice screenwriter in Hollywood. This is a book full of attractive voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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