The Paris Review Interviews: Vol I Book Review
Pearls of wisdom are peppered throughout this collection of interviews with some of the 20th century’s greatest writers. But too often, they focus less on the craft of writing and too much on the who’s who of socialite literary circles, dropping names which have little meaning to me. It was fascinating to read about, for example, Jorge Luis Borges’ approach to storytelling. In Ernest Hemingway’s interview, on the other hand, he just came off as an insincere diva unwilling to pass on knowledge to the next generation.
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