fiction files redux discussion

I had... no idea. Why didn't someone tell me about this before? No, really!

The Paris Review has these fabulous Interview books where they curate these great interviews across the years.

They are a near miracle for a writer:

-- comforting. It makes me feel good to hear of the struggles of other writers so well established. That they think too much. That peeling back to the bone hurts them, too.

-- brilliant. So many amazing viewpoints and ways of looking at the world.

-- challenging. Throwing down the gauntlet, challenging me to challenge myself.

-- esoteric.

-- universal.

Shel, I love these interviews! Thanks so much for making a post of them. :) My favorites are Faulkner and Baldwin...so much great advice and insight from these artists.

Big News!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/boo...

All of the Paris Review interviews are now available online.

Uh-oh. My Sunday doing billable work has been seriously compromised.

Didja anyone see the interview of David Mitchell? It's as if he snuck in fiction files to read up on our group reads.

wonderful gems to be found there. martin amis: "You try to think about where you are going, not where you came from, though what sometimes happens is that you get stuck, and it’s really not what you’re about to do that’s stumping you, it’s something you’ve already done that isn’t right."