{"id":6456,"date":"2011-08-17T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2011-08-17T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:55:12","slug":"the-paris-review-60-years-of-great-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/6456\/the-paris-review-60-years-of-great-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paris Review &#8211; 60 Years of Great Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/parisreviewees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6460\" title=\"parisreviewees\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/parisreviewees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em> began with a simple editorial mission: \u201cDear reader,\u201d William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, \u201c<em>The Paris Review<\/em> hopes to emphasize creative work\u2014fiction and poetry\u2014not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book. I think\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em> should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they&#8217;re good.\u201d<br \/>\nIn addition to the focus on original creative work, the founding editors found another alternative to criticism\u2014letting the authors talk about their work themselves. The\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>\u2019s Writers at Work interview series offers authors a rare opportunity to discuss their life and art at length; they have responded with some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature. Among the interviewees are William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Joan Didion, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, and Lorrie Moore. In the words of one critic, it is \u201cone of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world.\u201d<br \/>\nBookmark this fantastic resource. You&#8217;ll return again and again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read The Paris Review interviews here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/artists\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read my conversations with photographers here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Founded in Paris by Harold L. 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