George Plimpton

This paperback edition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the original publication of this sports classic.

Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

Paper Lion

Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, John Huston, and many other familiars of the writer follow his life and career, from his Southern childhood to his precipitate decline

In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

Truman Capote

The Paris Review

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of The Paris Review, this extraordinary anthology features an array of literary works--fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, and criticism--by some of the premier authors of the twentieth century, including Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Carver, Norman Mailer, and Italo Calvino, among others. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953

The Paris Review Book

Conversations with such authors as Robert Graves, John Dos Passos, Anthony Burgess, and Jack Kerouac reveal their personalities and views on literature

The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series

Writers at Work

Taruhan Mewujudkan Tulisan - Proses Kreatif Sebelas  Penulis Perempuan Terkemuka Dunia

A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers (Modern Library)

The Writer's Chapbook

Jean Stein

The short life of Edie Sedgwick and her rise to become one of the Warhol superstars, as viewed by her family and personalities including Capote, Vidal, and Warhol

Edie, an American Biography

The Best of Plimpton

The first issue 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" ("On Style," "On Plot," etc.); Part III is "Different Forms" ("On Biography," "On Journalism"); and Part IV is "The Writer's Life," covering topics like conferences, courses, and teaching, along with a section in which writers provided portraits of other writers. The Writer's Chapbook is a fund of observations by writers on writing. These range from marvel- ous one-liners (Eugene O'Neill on critics: "I love every bone in their heads"; T. S. Eliot on editors: "I suppose some editors are failed writers--but so are most writers") to expositions on plot, character, and the technical process of putting pen to paper and doing it for a living. "I don't even have a plot," says Norman Mailer; Paul Bowles describes writing in bed; Toni Morrison talks about inventing characters; and Edward Albee and Tom Wolfe explain where they discovered the titles for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Bonfire of the Vanities. This book is a treasure. But beware: What is true for the Writers at Work series holds for The Writer's Chapbook even more--a reader who picks it up, intending just to dip into it, might not emerge for days.

A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the 20th Century's Preeminent Writers

Interviews with Kingsley Amis, John Cheever, James Dickey, Joan Didion, William Gass, Henry Green, Joseph Heller, Jerzy Kosinski, Archibald MacLeish, Pablo Neruda, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irwin Shaw, Gore Vidal, P.G. Wodehouse.

The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series

Malcolm Cowley

Paris review

The Paris Review Interviews, First Series. Edited by George Plimpton with an Introd. by Malcolm Cowley

Paris Review

Paris Review Staff

The latest issue of THE PARIS REVIEW highlights the art of biography in interviews with esteemed biographers Robert Caro, David McCullough, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. This spring issue also includes reminiscences of literary life in Paris by Richard Wilbur and Norman Mailer, as well as contributions from such distinguished biographers as Antonia Fraser, Philip Ziegler, and Michael Holroyd.

Fireworks

THE PARIS REVIEW was founded by a group of American writers, including its current editor George Plimpton, in 1953. It features the best in new fiction and poetry. The summer issue here focuses on writing from England and Ireland, with a critical look at art and literature in the British Isles as the millennium nears.

Interviews with fifteen reputable writers--including John Cheever, Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and P. G. Wodehouse--provide anecdotes about and insight into the vagaries of the creative process

This is a collection of the Paris Review interviews that provides unique and valuable insights into the writer's craft and the writer's mind.

The Paris Review Interviews

Poets at Work

This issue celebrates the great American tradition of literary humor and investigates the future of the medium. Brendan Gill ponders his varied career in a Writers-at-Work Interview, and reflects on New Yorker humorists from Thurber to Frazier. Also featured: Jay McInerney, Fran Leibowitz, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Howard Stern, and Mona Simpson. Photos & illustrations.

The Paris Review, No 135

A selection of humor, articles, essays, and other writings by the late author of Paper Lion describes his undistinguished sojourn at an elite prep school, his experiences at a pornography convention in Las Vegas, what it is like to try out for Amateur Night at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, and other entertaining reflections and observations. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

And Other Excursions and Observations

The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair

A literary classic about his try at professional football for the Detroit Lions.

George Plimpton takes to the ice with the Boston Bruins in this memorable portrait of the rough-and-tumble world of professional hockey, repackaged and now featuring a foreword from Denis Leary and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. In OPEN NET, George Plimpton takes to the ice as goalie for his beloved Boston Bruins. After signing a release holding the Bruins blameless if he should meet with injury or death, he survives a harrowing, seemingly eternal five minutes in an exhibition game against the always-tough Philadelphia Flyers. With reflections on such hockey greats as Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, and Eddie Shore, OPEN NET is at once a celebration of the thrills and grace of the greatest sport on ice and a probing meditation into the hopes and fears of every man.

George Plimpton

About

Books

Join the club