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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45 (Continued), John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 (Continued). Interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank Crowther. View a manuscript page. John Steinbeck, ca. 1966. Photograph by Yoichi Okamoto. John Steinbeck had agreed to a. Diaries, published in December 1969 by Viking Press under the title. Journal of a Novel. Others are excerpted from letters, some of which have been collected under the title. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. Of course a writer rearranges life, shortens time intervals, sharpens events, and devi...

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Hemingway’s Hamburger

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Lsaquo; Previous Post. Next Post ›. September 16, 2013 by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Fingers deep, I kneaded. Fighting the urge to be careless and quick, I kept the pace rhythmic, slow. Each squeeze, I hoped, would gently ease the flavors knobby bits of garlic, finely chopped capers, smatterings of dry spices into the marbled mound before me. For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Old Man and the Sea. While standing up at his typewriter...

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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 180, Andrea Barrett

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Andrea Barrett, The Art of Fiction No. 180. Interviewed by Elizabeth Gaffney. View a manuscript page. When Andrea Barrett won the National Book Award in 1996 for her fifth book and first story collection,. She was not widely known or read. After four critically acclaimed novels that had never budged from the midlist, her then-publisher had declined. And yet it was this collection that became Barrett’s breakout book. Initially, the stories in. Barrett has written a fifth novel,. The Voyage of the Narwhal.

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Paris Review - The Art of the Essay No. 1, E. B. White

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E B White, The Art of the Essay No. 1. Interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther. View a manuscript page. In the issue of. Dated two weeks after E. B. White died, his stepson, Roger Angell, wrote the following in the magazine’s “Talk of the Town” section:. Rdquo; the boy said softly, his eyes traveling back and forth over the older faces at the table. “No-o-o-o! At what age did you know you were going to follow a literary profession? Was there a particular incident, or moment? Ever try to publ...

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Typographic Sanity: The Rise and Decline of the Linotype

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Lsaquo; Previous Post. Next Post ›. October 1, 2014 by Dan Piepenbring. The Blue Streak Comet, a Linotype machine. There’s a post over at Print Magazine. About Frank Romano’s new book,. History of the Linotype Company. The linotype machine operator enters text on a ninety-character keyboard. The machine assembles. Which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a. The machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant who set up shop...

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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 10, James Thurber

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James Thurber, The Art of Fiction No. 10. Interviewed by George Plimpton and Max Steele. View a manuscript page. James Thurber, ca. 1954. The Hôtel Continental, just down from the Place Vendôme on the Rue Castiglione. It is from here that Janet Flanner (Genêt) sends her Paris letter to. And it is here that the Thurbers usually stay while in Paris. “We like it because the service is first-rate without being snobbish.”. He is the author of. The Eater of Darkness. Rdquo; I’d say that I didn’t kn...Does the ...

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Listen: Saul Bellow Reads from “Humboldt’s Gift,” 1988

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Lsaquo; Previous Post. Next Post ›. Saul Bellow at the 92nd St Y. May 20, 2015 by Norman Rush. Saul Bellow backstage at the Poetry Center, 1988. Photo: Nancy Crampton, courtesy of 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center. A special project from the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the Unterberg Poetry Center’s seventy-fifth anniversary, invites contemporary authors to listen to a recording from the Poetry Center’s archive and write a personal response. Here, Norman Rush reflects on Saul Bellow, who read from. Whose ma...

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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 95, Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95. Interviewed by Tom Teicholz. View a manuscript page. A few words about the collaborative process that yielded the text that follows: Initially, Ozick was concerned that her spoken words would later betray her in print. “Conversation is air,” she said, and asked whether I might submit questions to be answered in writing. I made an acceptable counterproposal: I would ask questions, Ozick would type out her answers. You write all night. Have you always done so?

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Paris Review - The Art of Theater No. 12, Sam Shepard

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Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12. Interviewed by Benjamin Ryder Howe, Jeanne McCulloch, Mona Simpson. View a manuscript page. Like many writers, Shepard is easy to imagine as one of the characters in his own work. In person, he is closer to the laconic and inarticulate men of his plays than to his movie roles. Self-contained, with none of the bearing of an actor, he retains a desert California accent and somehow seems smaller than one expects. Forensic and the Navigators. Curse of the Starving Class.

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Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 16, John Berryman

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John Berryman, The Art of Poetry No. 16. Interviewed by Peter A. Stitt. View a manuscript page. Berryman spent a week in Mexico at the end of the summer and had “a marvelous time.” A trip to upstate New York for a reading followed, and by early October he was back at St. Mary's. It was there that the interview was conducted, during visiting hours on the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth of October. Can this sort of success ruin a writer? Well, I don't know. I don't get any frisson of excitement back he...