The Paris Review , the literary journal co-founded by George Plimpton, has posted online its extensive archive of interviews with famous literary figures.
The site includes interviews with TS Eliot , William Faulkner , Ralph Ellison , Ernest Hemingway , Simone de Beauvoir , Saul Bellow , Borges , Norman Mailer , Mary McCarthy , Vladimir Nabokov , John Steinbeck , Joan Didion , Kurt Vonnegut , Eudora Welty , Raymond Carver , Russell Banks , Don DeLillo , Stephen King , Marilynne Robinson , and many more.
(Via: Open Culture )
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