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Salman Rushdie lauds “The Paris Review” Art of Fiction Interviews

by Eric Franklin on November 6, 2009

Rushdie loves them. You probably will too...

Rushdie loves them. You probably will too...

The Times Online has a great piece from Salman Rushdie gushing, in a very eloquent manner of course, about his love for “The Paris Review Interviews.” Great writers, it turns out, are actually quite inquisitive about the habits of other great writers. They need to know whether their colleagues are as crazy as they are…

Three of the writers collected in this volume are friends of mine: Grossman, Orhan Pamuk and Paul Auster. But writers talk less to each other about their craft than perhaps they should, so even in these cases what the interviews have to tell me is revealing. Auster talks about “reading with [his] fingers”, the act of retyping the whole book once it’s finished, and how valuable he finds it — “it’s amazing”. He marvels at “how many errors your fingers will find that your eyes never noticed”.

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