The Writer's Chapbook. A Compendium of Fact, Opeinion, Wit, and Advice from the 20th Century's Preeminent Writers.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Since 1953, the Paris Review has featured interviews with the likes of François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner; in the intervening years, many of the world's most significant writers (Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and John Dos Passos) sat down for interviews. Editor, George Plimpton, has selected the best and most illuminating insights that the writers have provided and arranged them by subject rather than by author. The book is divided into four parts: "The Writer: A Profile" (including the sections "On Reading," "On Work Habits," On the Audi-
ence," etc.); Part II is "Technical Matters" ("On Style," "On Plot," etc.); Part III is "Different Forms" ("On Biography," "On Journalism"); and Part IV is "The Writer's Life." Item #28858

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