Writers at work : the Paris review interviews, second series

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews #2

by George Plimpton (Editor), Boris Pasternak (Contributor), Katherine Anne Porter (Contributor)

Writers at Volume 2 George Writers at Volume 2 Penguin FIRST First Edition Thus, 7th Printing (1974). Not price-clipped. Published by Penguin Books, 1963. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with sticker residue on front cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 354506 Reference We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, editor, actor, and gamesman. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.

He was the grandson of George A. Plimpton.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always fascinating to read interviews with great authors such as William Faulkner. Orhan Pamuk says in his introduction that the original interviews in Paris Review helped encourage him and keep him sane when he was growing up in Turkey. ....' By reading these author's interview, i discovered that there were many otheres wo shared my passion, that the disatnce between what i desired and what i achieved was normal, that my loathing for normal everyday life was not a sign of sickness but of intelligence,and that I should embrace most of the little eccentric habits that fired up my imagination and helped me write.'

[Stephan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Paris Review Interviews are simply the best documents on writers and the process of writing that exists. A must for anyone interested in serious writing. Any and all of them. Whenever I have time I love going over them time after time.

[Isla McKetta · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's always a pleasure to read and re-read these interviews. I love discovering once-famous authors who've faded into obscurity and reading new things about those who endure. Some literary gossip, some talk on craft, each interview is like a dinner party with people who truly share your passion.

[Bill Peschel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of interviews from The Paris Review. Goes beyond what you find in mainstream publications, and into the heart of writing, writers' lives and what they think.

[Selene Alexia · Rating 3 out of 5]

some fantastic interviews with gems throughout, others didn't interest me at all and felt stale and dated.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection if in-depth interviews with well known writers of the first half of the twentieth century. I picked it up mostly to hear about Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, and Ralph Ellison. It also included interviews with Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Boris Pasternak, Katherine Anne Porter, S. J. Perelman, Lawrence Durrell, Mary McCarthy, and Robert Lowell. Of these, Pound was the only one I'd read, and it was disturbing to learn that he wrote for the state when Mussolini was in charge. In fact, the first three, Frost, Pound and Moore had fascist leanings. I hated to hear that about Frost since he was the only poet I remember actually liking from High School.

Hemingway came off as a bit of a dick, which I'd already imagined he could be. I liked a lot of what Katherine Anne Porter said and ordered a collection of her short stories. I also liked the self deprecation and honest of Robert Lowell, and will have to pick up some of his poetry.

My favorite interview was with Ralph Ellison, who made a bunch of insightful comments. I very much like Ellison's writing, topped only by my enjoyment of Hemingway from this group. Huxley also came off well in his interview and I've enjoyed a lot of his work.

[Molebatsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like the first one, it is the bomb form of writing and the tidbits about great literary names. If you are a writer, you'll get to know how the masters do their writing,
Among the masters I encountered in the Second Series are Ezra Pound, T.S Eliot, Boris Pasternak, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote who turned out to be a badass writer and theoretician of note, and E.M Forster.
Without a pause, I proceed to Writers at Work Series 3. By the end of the series, I should be having a fair knowledge of writing.