What are you doing out there?

Nov 16, 2004

Literate bloggers everywhere have recently pointed to the Paris Review and its new archive of the famous interviews with novelists from the 1950s. Somewhere in a box in a closet in Cleveland, I have two old issues of the Paris Review, and I must admit that I never really knew what the damn things were until I read Gay Talese’s fine article Looking For Hemingway (in the anthology The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters) while Anna and Malia splashed in the tub these past two evenings. To be 26 again, and in Paris …

Anton Zuiker ☄