The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom: 3 (The Paris Review Interviews, 3)

No piece of writing gets so close to the heart of a writer as Paris Review Interviews. They are the most sophisticated interviews one can read. The magazine has successfully employed knowledgeable professionals to conduct the interviews because the person interviewing a writer must know the writer's work very well. I have read the four series of the interviews and enjoyed all of them. These interviews will tell you about the art of writing because being too theoretical - perhaps it all starts to sound very fake when one writes theories on art.

I purchased this complete set for my hard to buy for son in law who is a professional business writer. He has been glued to these volumes with their interesting interviews for the past several evenings and even reads highlights aloud to us! Its the best present I have ever found for him.

Beware: this book is printed on demand. I bought it from Amazon and returned it. Sneakily enough, the listing does NOT disclose that that's what you're going to get.The book looked printed at any Kinko's down the street: cheap and unworthy. That's not what I pay for when I buy a book. Print-on-demand books are a disgrace to the publishing industry, and I hope that this godforsaken trend dies out soon, and that wouldn't be fast enough either.

I bought these for my son who is a very good writer himself. Great vignettes of great writers.

Great opportunity to peak in to a conversation with a bunch of great authors.