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The Paris Review Interviews, II
Introduction by Orhan Pamuk
Picador, 512 pages, $16 paper
In his introduction to this sampling of interviews that ran in “The Paris Review” since its inception in 1953, Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk recalls reading these interviews when he was struggling to write in a back room of his mother’s Istanbul apartment. He found that the interviews spoke to him of “literature’s joys and vexations.” Each of the 16 interviews, ranging from Graham Greene to Alice Munro, provides insight, assurance and even writing tips. “One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez told his interviewer. “In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book.”
