The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3

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Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's leading novelists, poets and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as classic words of literature in their own right. The series as a whole is indispensable for all writers and readers. This new volume in the series builds on the success and acclaim of the first two editions. It includes interviews with: Ralph Ellison Salman Rushdie Norman Mailer Margaret Atwood Chinua Achebe Joyce Carol Oates among many others.

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 * For writing nerds, this is nirvana. -- Colin Waters Sunday Herald * Anyone with the slightest pretension a literary life needs to read this collection. The London Paper * this second collection [The Paris Review Interviews vol. 2] of the magazine's interviews with writers is rich in delight. -- Steven Poole Guardian * ...much like its predecessor is a bull's-eye...this is a bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about their prose [vol. 2]. -- Francesca Segal Observer * I have read all the copies of The Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the Review. Ernest Hemingway * The Paris Review is the finest literary magazine of the moment, a great contradiction of the prevailing gloom over the status of literature in contemporary life, and its arrival in these islands is an event that calls for loud hurrahs. John Banville * The distinguished reputation of The Paris Review's long-standing series of interviews with writers is upheld in this volume. Daily Telegraph