Paris Review Online
The Paris Review's website is launching "
The DNA of Literature," what will eventually be a web archive of more than 300 interviews with working writers spanning the last half century--all free for viewing. From
Dorothy Parker to Rick Moody, and more. (Only the interviews from the 1950s are currently online; the full archive is scheduled to be completed by next July.)
Here's a snip from Parker's interview
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, “You’re all a lost generation.” That got around to certain people and we all said, “Whee! We’re lost.” Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don’t forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren’t. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
Posted by johndan at November 17, 2004 01:57 PM
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