This is Great
November 16, 2004
One of my favorite series of books over the years has been the Paris Review Interviews, which have been rolled up into a series of books called, Writers at Work. Starting in the 1950s, then-editor George Plimpton and later others interviewed many of the great living writers. Now these interviews are becoming available on the Web. Some of the interviews up there already include Truman Capote, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, and Dorothy Parker.
I am still checking it out, but it looks like the interviews will be coming out in phases. The full interviews are downloaded as PDFs, which are nice and clear but don't look like the typography from the books. They do include a favorite feature from the books--most (all?) interviews began with a facsimile of a manuscript page, showing, typically, typewritten manuscript with the author's edits in pen or pencil. I always found the interviews--and the manuscript pages--a wonderful glimpse into the creative process of giants.
Posted by Bill Trippe at November 16, 2004 8:58 PM
