Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series

“Long maythis splendid series thrive.” —People =: Since 1953, The Paris Review has interviewed many of the world’s great contemporary authors. Theseinterviewsoffer a rare opportunity to hear whatwriters think about theart and the’ craft of writing. This eighth collection followsthat tradition, buf, with a new twist: For the first time, the interviews include not only “creative” writers, but also an essayist, a biographer, an editor, and a translator. As Joyce Carol Oatessaysin her Introduction, “It should not surprise us that these [people] bring to their vocations the passionate, almost mystical intensity usually associated withthe ‘creative’ artist.” Indeed, when viewed.as a whole, Writers at Work showsthat all writers are, in fact, “creative” writers... 7 | “Anyone who haswritten, or is trying to write, will want to tead * Writers at Wok.It's filled withthe kind ofliterary talk that will -send the ae AA ea the typewriter. Which is, of Wn ell eoy where he belongs. a " . Wt a =e) yo aL —Los Angeles Daily News | ; Cover Sel by Melissa Jacoby } H nn D4 & ISBN 0-14-010761-4 i Pa A PENGUIN BOOK a ‘ meleealicia CAN. $11.95 USA. $8.95 | , : . 9 780140"107616 90000 | : nn , x re | , i" 7 PENGUIN BOOKS WRITERS AT WORK EIGHTH SERIES Joyce Carol Oates is the author of eighteen novels, as well as many short stories, poems, essays, and plays. Her most recent work is a novel, American Appetites, which Dutton will publish in January 1989. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation award, the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, and the 1970 _ National Book Award for her novel Them. She has been a member of the American AcademyandInstitute of Arts and Letters since 1978. She was born in Lockport, New York, and now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where sheis on the faculty of Princeton University. The Paris Review was founded in 1953 by a group of young Americans including Peter Matthiessen, Harold L. Humes, George Plimpton, Thomas Guinzburg, and Donald Hall. While the emphasis of its editors was on publishing creative work rather than nonfiction (among writers who published their first short stories there were Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Evan S. Connell, and Samuel Beckett), part of the magazine’s success can be attributed to its continuing series of interviews on thecraft of writing. Previously Published WRITERS AT WORK The Paris Review Interviews FIRST SERIES Edited and introduced by MALCOLM COWLEY E.. M. Forster. Francois Mauriac Joyce Cary Dorothy Parker James Thurber Thornton Wilder William Faulkner Georges Simenon Frank O’Connor Robert Penn Warren Alberto Moravia Nelson Algren Angus Wilson William Styron Truman Capote Francoise Sagan SECOND SERIES Edited by GEORGE PLIMPTONand introduced by VAN WYCK BROOKS Robert Frost Ezra Pound Marianne Moore T. S. Eliot Boris Pasternak Katherine Anne Porter Henry Miller Aldous Huxley Ernest Hemingway S. J. Perelman — Lawrence Durrell Mary McCarthy Ralph Ellison Robert Lowell 1Vv THIRD SERIES Edited by GEORGE PLIMPTON and introduced by ALFRED KAZIN William Carlos Williams Blaise Cendrars Jean Cocteau Louis-Ferdinand Céline Evelyn Waugh Lillian Hellman William Burroughs