The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews (The Paris Review Interviews, 1)

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.