Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Grand Archives

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George Plimpton with Mr. Puss. Photo by Nancy Crampton from the New York Times

The Paris Review recently posted its entire archive of author interviews online. Here's the introduction to George Plimpton's interview of Ernest Hemingway, from the Spring 1958 issue:

HEMINGWAY

You go to the races?


INTERVIEWER


Yes, occasionally.


HEMINGWAY


Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.

More of that interview here, and the whole archive here.

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