Women at Work

“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the ot...

“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the other founders of the Review in the early fifties, and still in use today, the conversation is never limited to a discussion of craft or structure. The dialogues turn into stories of their own.” —Ottessa Moshfegh, from her preface

Women at Work, the first anthology from the Paris Review Editions imprint, features interviews with Margaret Atwood, Simone de Beauvoir, Elizabeth Bishop, Joan Didion, Isak Dinesen, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Jan Morris, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Claudia Rankine, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

“作家访谈”是美国文学杂志《巴黎评论》（Paris Review）最持久、最著名的特色栏目。自一九五三年创刊号中的E.M.福斯特访谈至今，《巴黎评论》一期不落地刊登当代最伟大作家的长篇访谈，最初冠以“小说的艺术”之名，逐渐扩展到“诗歌的艺术”“批评的艺术”等，迄今已达四百篇以上，囊括了二十世纪下半叶至今世界文坛几乎所有的重要作家。作家访谈已然成为《巴黎评论》的招牌，同时树立了“访谈”这一特殊文体的典范。