Playwrights at Work Interviews with Albee, Beckett, Guare, Hellman, Ionesco, Mamet, Miller, Pinter, Shepard, Simon, Stoppard, Wasserstein, Wilder, Williams, Wilson (Modern Library (Paperback)) by ParisReviewStaff, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ParisReview 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 ParisReview, George Plimpton, ParisReviewStaff, ParisReview 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 âthe biggest âlittle magazineâ in history.â 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 âmirrorâ to the world ..."
The ParisReview 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 ParisReview, George Plimpton, ParisReviewStaff, ParisReview 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 ..."
"From âthe biggest little magazine in the worldâ 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 ..."
"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 ParisReview [Subtitle]: New British Writing by ParisReviewStaff, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
""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 ..."
"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, ..."
"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 ..."
""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 ..."
"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, ..."
"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 ParisReview Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters by The ParisReview, Philip Gourevitch, Orhan Pamuk, ParisReviewStaff 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 ParisReview Interviews by ParisReviewStaff Hardcover, Published 1958 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-79094-4, ISBN: 0-670-79094-X