Do you remember the circumstances of your first meeting with Pound?

September 20, 2010 10:36 AM

All the interviews from Paris Review (wikipedia) are now online!

• Interviews by name
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s
• 2010s

posted by mattn (13 comments total)

Woo hoo! Finally! They've had a selection up forever, but this is a great resource. Writers, take note!
posted by carsonb at 10:38 AM on September 20, 2010

Huzzah!
posted by jokeefe at 10:40 AM on September 20, 2010

Just realised that I should have put The Paris Review. First MetaFilter post – sorry!
posted by mattn at 10:42 AM on September 20, 2010

Yay Paris Review day on MetaFilter!
posted by shakespeherian at 10:46 AM on September 20, 2010

Good first post! Thank you!
posted by acheekymonkey at 10:48 AM on September 20, 2010

A trove of treasure.

Wish I'd been able to link to it in my John McPhee post:

I have to have somebody listening, and the somebody listening can be helpful with comments. But mostly the person is just listening. [My wife] Yolanda doesn’t challenge me very much. The one stricture she set down was that she would only take ten minutes of geology at a time.
posted by Joe Beese at 10:49 AM on September 20, 2010

"This is a risk I take, but isn’t that what life is, after all? Missing something that’s right there before you?" --William Gaddis.

This is a highly concentrated collection of grand stuff -- thanks.
posted by chavenet at 10:53 AM on September 20, 2010

Wow. Neato. Thank you!
posted by mykescipark at 11:20 AM on September 20, 2010

Huzzah!
posted by mrgrimm at 11:26 AM on September 20, 2010

These are George Plimpton's greatest contribution to culture - after that of playing the evil dean in Boner Academy.
posted by Joe Beese at 11:38 AM on September 20, 2010 [2 favorites]

wow, thanks for this.
posted by dhruva at 12:32 PM on September 20, 2010

I had work to do tonight! Arse.
posted by fullerine at 1:42 PM on September 20, 2010

Brilliant
posted by Mocata at 2:52 PM on September 20, 2010