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The Paris Review Interviews Now Online

From Open Culture:

The Paris Review, the great literary journal co-founded by George Plimpton, unveiled last week a new web site and a big archive of interviews with famous literary figures. Spanning five decades, the interviews often talk about the “how” of literature (to borrow a phrase from Salman Rushdie) – that is, how writers go about writing. Rummaging through the archive, you will encounter conversations with TS EliotWilliam FaulknerRalph EllisonErnest HemingwaySimone de BeauvoirSaul BellowJorge Luis BorgesNorman MailerMary McCarthyVladimir NabokovJohn SteinbeckJoan DidionKurt Vonnegut,Eudora WeltyRaymond CarverRussell BanksDon DeLilloToni Morrison,Paul Auster, etc. And, amazingly, this list only scratches the surface of what’s available.

Note: These interviews are separately available in book format: The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes 1-4