Review Paris Review, Author, Paris Review, Author, George Plimpton, Editor Random House (NY) $23 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-77129-6
Sixteen women writers--Dorothy Parker, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Susan Sontag and Anne Sexton among them--discuss the art and craft of writing both fiction and nonfiction in this captivating, instructive compendium of interviews conducted by...
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Paris Review, Author, George Plimpton, Introduction by , intro. by George Plimpton. Picador $27 (768p) ISBN 978-0-312-42238-7
While this volume's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink title may seem to imply an odd combination of editorial insecurity or pretension, it only takes one spin through the table of contents to know why the editors felt the need for such a busy,...
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Paris Review, Author, George Plimpton, Editor, Paris Review, Manufactured by . Modern Library $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-77349-8
Fearful that he had lost some of his mental acuity after a serious accident mid-way through his literary career, Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, who until that point was known as a poet and essayist, tried a new genre—short story writing&
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