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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Fiction No. 82

  The Paris Review

  © Edna O'Brien. Edna O’Brien was born in the west of Ireland in a small village she describes as “enclosed, fervid, and bigoted.” Literature was taboo, and those books that penetrated the parish were loaned by the page. O’Brien’s father was a farmer who “carried on in that glorious line of …

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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Poetry No. 90

  The Paris Review

  Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on May 9, 1938. His early childhood was, inevitably, dominated by the Nazi invasion, and some of his most powerful poems derive from memories of this period. In “Two Dogs,” for instance, he recalls watching the Germans march past his house in 1944: The …

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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Fiction No. 97

  The Paris Review

  Walker Percy and Patrick Samway, S.J., at the Percy home in Covington, LA. ca. 1978. This interview was conducted by mail, from May to October, 1986, at an enormous geographical distance; but the interviewer does cherish the memory of a personal meeting. It was on May 4, 1973, a warm Louisiana …

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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Fiction No. 192

  The Paris Review - Interviewed by Lila Azam Zanganeh

  Jorge Semprún, ca. 1970. In Paris, in the winter of 1943, Jorge Semprún, a twenty-year-old Spanish-born philosophy student and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald. Although he survived to lead an extraordinarily eventful life, to this …

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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Fiction No. 4

  The Paris Review - Interviewed by George Plimpton & John Phillips

  You know, I’ve been reading that story you spoke about, the last one in your collection of short stories Mixed Company, the one called “The Green Nude.” It’s pretty funny. IRWIN SHAW What do you mean by that? Pretty funny? As a matter of fact, it’s very funny. A very funny story. Damn right it’s funny. …

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  Ian E Detlefsen

  

  The Art of Theater No. 1

  The Paris Review - Interviewed by John Marquand & Anne Hollander

  Sketch by Anne Hollander. Miss Hellman spends her summers in a comfortable white house at the bottom of a sandbank in the town of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. There is none of old Cape Cod about it; a modern house, newly built with lots of big windows and a …