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Twenty Paris Review Interviews for Kindle

In the course of futzing around with my Kindle, Instapaper, and the Paris Review site tonight, I made—or rather Instapaper made me—a Kindle e-book with a simply wonderful collection of their famous interviews. The selection criteria were fairly idiosyncratic—which is to say that I just pulled authors whom I personally think are interesting, and left out many others, so don’t bray at me for including Kingsley but not Martin Amis or whatever—but I think I cast a wide-enough net that you’ll find something interesting. And Instapaper does a heckuva job of making them look presentable.

Included are:

• Tennessee Williams
• Elie Wiesel
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Tom Stoppard
• Dorothy Parker
• Pablo Neruda
• Iris Murdoch
• Toni Morrison
• Primo Levi
• Fran Lebowitz
• Joan Didion on nonfiction
• Joan Didion on fiction
• Truman Capote
• Jorge Luis Borges
• James Baldwin
• Margaret Atwood
• Kingsley Amis
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Harold Bloom
• Susan Sontag

Enjoy!

Edited to Add: Stephen Sondheim and Edward Albee somehow got cut off, so go read those two your own damn self.

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   This, to say that some hm-hmm weeks later, I am finally wending my way through this eclectic selection

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