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Ernest Hemingway schrieb in seinem Schlafzimmer, das Arbeitszimmer betrat er nur, wenn seine Figuren ihn dorthin trieben. Toni  Morrison begann mit dem Schreiben, wenn die  »Mama«-Rufe sie nicht davon abhielten - in der  Regel vor 5 Uhr am Morgen -, und warnt davor, zu hart mit den eigenen Texten ins Gericht zu  gehen: »Es gibt eine Grenze zwischen Überarbeiten und Zerfleischen, es zu Tode zu bearbeiten.« Alice Munro schloss sich sonntags in ihrer  Buchhandlung ein, um in Ruhe schreiben zu können, musste aber manchmal vor den großen Namen um sie herum fliehen. Kazuo Ishiguro verfasste schon in der Grundschule Detektivgeschichten, schnitt Rezensionen aus der Zeitung aus, die er auf die Buchcover klebte. 1953  an der Rive Gauche gegründet und seit den siebziger Jahren in New York angesiedelt, schenkt die Paris Review Leser*innen seit Jahrzehnten erhellende, amüsante - schlicht einzigartige Gespräche mit Autor*innen. Nun sind die  besten Interviews mit Nobelpreisträger*innen  zum ersten Mal in einem Band versammelt.

The Paris Review asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder?The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout these pages you will find men plagued with guilt, women burdened by history, scientists bound by passion, mothers fogged with delusion, and lovers vexed with jealousy. In the theme that encompasses every life, no protagonist--or reader!--is exempt.Includes contributions from Stephin Merritt, Joanna Scott, Annie Proulx, Ben Okri, Wells Tower, Julie Orringer, Rick BassSnow by James Lasdun, Malinda McCollum, Norman Rush, Denis Johnson, Mary Robison, Charles Baxter, Miranda July, Richard Stern, Elizabeth Gilbert, Frederick Busch, and Charlie Smith.

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 authors touch every corner of the writing life, sharing their ambitions, obsessions, inspirations, disappointments, and the most idiosyncratic details of their writing habits. The collected interviews of The Paris Reviews are, as Gary Shteyngart put it, "a colossal literary event."

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 "Betrayal"*Jeffrey Eugenides and Norman Mailer on "Death"*Philip Roth on "God"Inspiring a dizzying range of thought and emotion, the collection holds a mirror to the world we live in and to the reader's own hopes, dreams, fears, and joy.

"I have 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 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 shouldn't literature provoke?" to Joyce Carol Oates's thrilling comments about her own prolific output, The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets, and playwrights. How did Georges Simenon manage to write about six books a year, what was it like for Jan Morris to write as both a man and a woman, what influences moved Ralph Ellison to write Invisible Man? In the pages of The Paris Review, writers give more than simple answers, they offer uncommon candor, depth, and wit in interviews that have become the gold standard of the literary Q&A. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including Martin Amis, Norman Mailer, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Harold Pinter, and more. "A colossal literary event," as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Interviews, III, is an indispensable treasure of wisdom from the world's literary masters.

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 Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of our time. This anthology---the first of its kind---is more than a treasury: it is an indispensable resource for writers, students, and anyone else who wants to understand fiction from a writer''s point of view."Some chose classics. Some chose stories that were new even to us. Our hope is that this collection will be useful to young writers, and to others interested in literary technique. Most of all, it is intended for readers who are not (or are no longer) in the habit of reading short stories. We hope these object lessons will remind them how varied the form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give."ΓÇöfrom the Editors'' NoteWITH SELECTIONS BYDaniel Alarc├│n ┬╖ Donald Barthelme ┬╖ Ann Beattie ┬╖ David Bezmozgis ┬╖ Jorge Luis Borges ┬╖ Jane Bowles ┬╖ Ethan Canin ┬╖ Raymond Carver ┬╖ Evan S. Connell ┬╖ Bernard Cooper ┬╖ Guy Davenport ┬╖ Lydia Davis ┬╖ Dave Eggers ┬╖ Jeffrey Eugenides ┬╖ Mary Gaitskill ┬╖ Thomas Glynn ┬╖ Aleksandar Hemon ┬╖ Amy Hempel ┬╖ Mary-Beth Hughes ┬╖ Denis Johnson ┬╖ Jonathan Lethem ┬╖ Sam Lipsyte ┬╖ Ben Marcus ┬╖ David Means ┬╖ Leonard Michaels ┬╖ Steven Millhauser ┬╖ Lorrie Moore ┬╖ Craig Nova ┬╖ Daniel Orozco ┬╖ Mary Robison ┬╖ Norman Rush ┬╖ James Salter ┬╖ Mona Simpson ┬╖ Ali Smith ┬╖ Wells Tower ┬╖ Dallas Wiebe ┬╖ Joy Williams

A Picador Paperback Original"The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful."--Margaret Atwood 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 constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm"--The Paris Review has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. For more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognized as classic works of literature, an essential and definitive record of the writing life. They have won the coveted George Polk Award and have been a contender for the Pulitzer Prize. Paris Review former editor Philip Gourevitch introduces an entirely original selection of sixteen of the most celebrated interviews. Often startling, always engaging, these encounters contain an immense scope of intelligence, personality, experience, and wit from the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Rebecca West, and Billy Wilder. This is an indispensable book for all writers and readers.