The Writer's Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact...from the 20th Century's Preeminent Writers - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 014009878X ISBN 13: 9780140098785

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992

Synopsis

A compendium of fact and opinion from pre-eminent writers of the 20th century, arranged by subject. Along with materials culled from other sources, it includes highlights from the "Paris Review" interviews. The topics include politics, drink, inspiration, publishers, gossip and sex.

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From the Inside Flap:

sue of The Paris Review in 1953 included an interview on the craft of writing with E. M. Forster, perhaps the greatest living author of the time. Subsequent issues carried interviews with, among others, François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner; in the intervening years, many of the world's most significant writers (Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and John Dos Passos) sat down with The Paris Review. Many of the interviews have been collected in a series of volumes entitled Writers at Work. From these interviews, The Paris Review's editor, George Plimpton, has selected the best and most illuminating insights that the writers have provided and arranged them by subject rather than by author. The book is divided into four parts: "The Writer: A Profile" (including the sections "On Reading," "On Work Habits," On the Audi-
ence," etc.); Part II is "Technical Matters" ("

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 014009878X
• ISBN 13: 9780140098785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400