In 1953, the literary quarterly Paris Review introduced a new paradigm for the art of the interview, which endures as a gold standard all these decades later.

The WRITERS AT WORK series features a selection of the magazine's in-depth interviews with many of the last century's most distinguished literary figures, including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Nabokov among many dozens of others.

Literary critic Joe David Bellamy called the series "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world."  A Paris Review interview, Philip Gourevitch wrote, "has become a sort of international laurel for writers, a recognition of a mature life's work, and an occasion to reflect on what has been achieved and how it has been achieved."

The authors -- poets, novelists, playwrights, literary critics and translators -- comment informally on their work and craft, distinguish between their lives and works, between emotions and incidents, and discuss their self-criticism, work habits and influences.  If you value literature and the craft of writing, these are not to be missed!


The following books are in PDF format (all volumes edited by George Plimpton):

* Writers at Work: 1st Series (Viking, 1959). Introduction by Malcolm Cowley.
* Writers at Work: 2nd Series (Viking, 1963). Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks.
* Writers at Work: 3rd Series (Viking, 1967). Introduction by Alfred Kazin.
* Writers at Work: 4th Series (Viking, 1976). Introduction by Wilfrid Sheed.
* Writers at Work: 5th Series (Penguin, 1981). Introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray.
* Writers at Work: 6th Series (Penguin, 1985). Introduction by Frank Kermode.
* Writers at Work: 7th Series (Penguin, 1988). Introduction by John Updike.
* Writers at Work: 8th Series (Penguin, 1988). Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
* Writers at Work: 9th Series (Penguin, 1992). Introduction by William Styron.

Also included:

* Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 4 (Picador, 2009). Philip Gourevitch, ed. -- ePUB
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