The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews by The Paris Review, Ernest Hemingway, Rebecca West, Philip Gourevitch, Richard Price, James M. Cain, Joan Didion, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Jorge Luis Borges, Billy Wilder, Jack Gilbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Robert Stone, Robert Gottlieb, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop

510 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative fast-paced
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How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book--"I ...

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