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Writers at Work
Volume 3
by Paris Review Staff, George Plimpton
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1967 by Viking
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-79096-8, ISBN: 0-670-79096-6






Playwrights at Work
Interviews with Albee, Beckett, Guare, Hellman, Ionesco, Mamet, Miller, Pinter, Shepard, Simon, Stoppard, Wasserstein, Wilder, Williams, Wilson (Modern Library (Paperback))
by Paris Review Staff, John Lahr, George Plimpton
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2000 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-64021-9, ISBN: 0-679-64021-5

"The third installment in the Modern Library's Paris Review "Writers at Work" series, this is an all-new gathering of interviews with the most important and compelling playwrights of our time. Their singular takes on their craft, their influences, their lives, the state of contemporary theater, and the tricks of the trade create an illuminating and unparalleled record of the life of the theater itself. "At its best, theater is an antidot ..."






Untitled Anthology No. 3
by Paris Review Staff
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42242-4, ISBN: 0-312-42242-3






Latin American Writers at Work(Updated)
(Modern Library Paperbacks)
by George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff, The Paris Review, Derek Walcott, Ronald Christ, Pablo Neruda, Derek Wolcott
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77349-8, ISBN: 0-679-77349-5

"INTERVIEWER: Aside from your favorites, what do you read today? GARCIA MARQUEZ: I read the weirdest things I was reading Muhammad Ali's memoirs the other day. Bram Stoker's Dracula is a great book and one I probably would not have read many years ago because I would have thought it was a waste of time. But I never really get involved with a book unless it's recommended by somebody I trust. I don't read any more fiction. I read many ..."






Beat Writers at Work
(Modern Library (Paperback))
by Rick Moody, Paris Review Staff, George Plimpton, Richard Moody, Professor Richard Moody
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1999 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75215-5, ISBN: 0-375-75215-3

"From the pages of The Paris Review, a collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and more   Edited by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton, and with an introduction by Rick Moody, this anthology of “Writers at Work” interviews featuring the great figures of the Beat and Black Mountain movements is an in-depth look into one of the most famous literary tribes of the ..."






The Paris Review Book(1st Edition)
of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953
by The Paris Review, George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff, Paris Review
Hardcover, 752 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42238-7, ISBN: 0-312-42238-5

"An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called “the biggest ‘little magazine’ in history.” To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review, Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of the writers included, this book will inspire a dizzying range of thought and emotion, serving as a cumulative and breathtaking “mirror” to the world ..."






The Paris Review Book(Reprint)
of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, ... and Everything Else in the World Since 1953
by The Paris Review, George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff, Paris Review
Paperback, 928 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42239-4, ISBN: 0-312-42239-3

"For a half-century, "The Paris Review" has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled. The greatest writers here write and speak upon the greatest subjects of our time: *Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver on "Heartbreak"*Vladimir Nabokov on SEX*Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag on "War"*Jonathan Franzen on "Bet ..."






The Paris Review
by Paris Review, Paris Review Staff, Daniel Kunitz, George Plimpton
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by Random House Inc (P)
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75110-3, ISBN: 0-375-75110-6

"Table of Contents--Number 145InterviewsBarney Rossett--The Art of Publishing IIJeanette Winterson--The Art of Fiction CLFictionMelvin Jules Bukiet--SplintersSheila Kohler--CracksKristina McGrath--A Scribbler's LifeSteven Millhauser--Flying CarpetsMark Richard--TUnga Tuggo, Lingua DinguaArtFred Tomaselli--Field GuideShirin Neshat--UnveilingPoetryCraig Arnold--Seven PoemsMark Bibbins--Six PoemsBilly Collins--Two PoemsJohn Drury--Three Poe ..."






The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms(1st Edition)
by The Paris Review, Richard Powers, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Junot Diaz, Edwrd P. Jones, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, T. C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Naipaul, Richard Wilbur, Robert Pinsky, Philip Larkin, Paris Review Staff
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42240-0, ISBN: 0-312-42240-7

"From “the biggest little magazine in the world” comes an addictively clever anthology prescribed to fill all the blank moments of your life.The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must live through moments of waiting--to get from one place to the next, from one appointment to another, for something to happen. This inge ..."






The Paris Review
by George Plimpton, Paris Review, Paris Review Staff, Random House Inc
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by Random House Inc (P)
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75177-6, ISBN: 0-375-75177-7

"Table of Contents--Number 147InterviewsRussell Banks--The Art of Fiction CLIIIsmail Kadare--Tegh Art of Fiction CLIIIFIctionScott Anderson--from TriageRick Bass--The Hermit's StoryNicole Cooley--EscapesMichael Knight--TenantKirk Nesset--Poet and PhilospherFeaturesPanel--Como Conversazione: TravelHarry Mathews--Oulipo SamplerArtSteve Miller--Self-Portrait Vanitas #55Pier Consagra--PortraitsPoetryMichael Berryhill--Three PoemsCarin Besser ..."






The Paris Review
[Subtitle]: New British Writing
by Paris Review Staff, George Plimpton
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by Random House Usa Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75178-3, ISBN: 0-375-75178-5

"Publisher Drue Heinz Editors George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert Silvers, Blair Fuller, Maxine ... Editor Daniel Kunitz Editor at Large Elizabeth Gaffney Senior Editor Brigid Hughes Associate Editors Stephen Clark, Eliza ..."






The Paris Review
by George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1997 by Random House Inc (P)
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77847-9, ISBN: 0-679-77847-0

"Divorce necessarily followed the sex change (it is required by British law), although Morris still lives with his former wife, currently in a house in North Wales called Trefan Morys. Morris describes the house in her book Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989): "I love it above all inanimate objects, and above a good many animate ones too. . . . It consists in essence simply of two living rooms, each about forty feet long. Both are fu ..."






The Paris Review Interviews, III(1st Edition)
The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom
by The Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch, Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Paris Review Staff, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, Evelyn Waugh, Salman.Others Rushdie
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2008 by Picador
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36315-4, ISBN: 0-312-36315-X

""I have all the copies of "The Paris Re"view and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the "Review.""--Ernest HemingwaySince "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. From Salman Rushdie's daring rhetorical question "why ..."






4(3rd Edition)
The Paris Review Interviews, IV
by The Paris Review, Salman Rushdie, Picador Usa Staff, Philip Gourevitch, Paris Review Staff
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2009 by Picador
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42744-3, ISBN: 0-312-42744-1

"With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, "The Paris Review "has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron and more. In each of these remarkable extended conversations, ..."






The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. 1-4
by The Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch, Picador Usa, Paris Review Staff
Paperback, 4 Pages, Published 2009 by Picador
Box Set
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42916-4, ISBN: 0-312-42916-9

"For more than half a century, The Paris Review has conducted in-depth interviews with our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. These revealing, revelatory self-portraits have come to be recognized as themselves classic works of literature, and an essential and definitive record of the writing life. This beautiful slipcase edition brings together all four volumes of Picador's selected Paris Review Interviews, including Q&As with ..."






Women Writers at Work(Updated)
The Paris Review Interviews
by George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff, Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 455 Pages, Published 1998 by Modern Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77129-6, ISBN: 0-679-77129-8

""What is it about interviews that attracts us?" Margaret Atwood asks in her introduction to this collection of 16 interviews from The Paris Review. "Specifically, what is it about interviews with writers?" Women Writers at Work may not answer that question, but it raises many, many more--and allows the writers included in this volume to speak for themselves. For decades the Paris Review has been interviewing authors of both genders and ..."






Object Lessons
The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
by The Paris Review, Lorin Stein, Sadie Stein, Paris Review Staff, David Means
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Picador
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00598-4, ISBN: 1-250-00598-1

"A "New York Magazine" Best Book of the YearA" Huffington Post" Best Book of the Year Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of "The Paris Review."What does it take to write a great short story? In "Object Lessons," twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of "The Paris Review." Over the course of the last half century, ..."






The Paris Review
(Issue 144)
by Paris Review Staff, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert B. Silvers, Blair Fuller, Maxine Groffsky, Jeanne Mcculloch, James Linville
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by Random House Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75049-6, ISBN: 0-375-75049-5

"Table of Contents--Number 144InterviewsSeamus Heaney--The Art of Poetry LXXVRobert Pinskey--The Art of Poetry LXXVIFictionJane Avrich--The Great FloodPeter Matthiessen--Lost Man's RiverRick Moody--The Mansion on the HillKate Walbert--The Blue HourDavid Foster Wallace--Brief Interviews with Hideous MenFeaturesAldo Buzzi--A Self InterviewElias Canetti--Selected Notes from Hideeous MenArtBetsy Rosenwald--WIndFrank Yamrus--Six BodiesPoetryM ..."






2(1st Edition)
The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters
by The Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch, Orhan Pamuk, Paris Review Staff
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36314-7, ISBN: 0-312-36314-1

"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. From William Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes "ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work," to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's observation that "in the first paragraph, you sol ..."






Writers at Work, First
The Paris Review Interviews
by Paris Review Staff
Hardcover, Published 1958 by Viking Adult
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-79094-4, ISBN: 0-670-79094-X



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