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Paris Review has put all their author interviews online

27 points by jamesbritt 16y ago

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dugmartin 16y ago
and it was all done in PHP.
- dugmartin 16y ago
  Not sure why this was down voted - maybe it sounded snarky? That's not what I meant - my company built the site on a PHP framework and templating system I wrote. I guess I should learn not to comment at night when I'm tired.
  - nochiel 16y ago
    Congratulations and thank you for building the site. It is beautiful and works well. You probably should have posted this instead of your first comment (that first comment is of a type that tends to get down-voted very quickly around here). ps. That said, there is a HN rule that states, roughly, "thou shalt not ask why you were down-voted."
    - dugmartin 16y ago
      I did write a different first post but then deleted it because I couldn't get the voice of the post right. I replaced it with an intentionally vague post thinking someone would says "how do you know that?" Now that I write that it sounds infantile. Like I said, I'm finally learning not to post when tired :) btw, I can't take any credit for the actual site - I just built the framework its built on. It was designed by our amazing designer, Jennifer Over, interviewed here: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/22/jennifer-over-and-our-new-web-site/ http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/22/jennifer-over-... and it was developed by Gerard Gualberto (gerardg here on HN).
nochiel 16y ago
This is wonderful. They've been tweeting these interviews for a while now, and I have found them uniformly excellent. If you are a writer you do yourself a terrible disservice if you miss a single one.
shanes 16y ago
Thank you jamesbritt for finding this link. This has to be one of the greatest things I have ever seen on the internet. Seriously. The sheer amount of information I can gleen from these interviews is worth so much more than almost anything I can think of. I'm busily copying many interviews and pasting them in plain-text format in order to read something when I have no internet or for when the end of the world arrives, whichever comes first. I'm resisting reading them online, though I have succumbed a few times. Congratulations to the Paris Review for making these available and again to jamesbritt for thinking of posting this link on Hacker News.
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  I had read various interviews over the years, and was stuck by how thoughtful they tended to be, on matters of writing and craft in general. Having them now online is real treasure, and just struck me as the sort of thing HN'ers would appreciate.

27 points by jamesbritt 16y ago

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dugmartin 16y ago

and it was all done in PHP.

dugmartin 16y ago
Not sure why this was down voted - maybe it sounded snarky? That's not what I meant - my company built the site on a PHP framework and templating system I wrote. I guess I should learn not to comment at night when I'm tired.
- nochiel 16y ago
  Congratulations and thank you for building the site. It is beautiful and works well. You probably should have posted this instead of your first comment (that first comment is of a type that tends to get down-voted very quickly around here). ps. That said, there is a HN rule that states, roughly, "thou shalt not ask why you were down-voted."
  - dugmartin 16y ago
    I did write a different first post but then deleted it because I couldn't get the voice of the post right. I replaced it with an intentionally vague post thinking someone would says "how do you know that?" Now that I write that it sounds infantile. Like I said, I'm finally learning not to post when tired :) btw, I can't take any credit for the actual site - I just built the framework its built on. It was designed by our amazing designer, Jennifer Over, interviewed here: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/22/jennifer-over-and-our-new-web-site/ http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/22/jennifer-over-... and it was developed by Gerard Gualberto (gerardg here on HN).

nochiel 16y ago

This is wonderful. They've been tweeting these interviews for a while now, and I have found them uniformly excellent. If you are a writer you do yourself a terrible disservice if you miss a single one.

shanes 16y ago

Thank you jamesbritt for finding this link. This has to be one of the greatest things I have ever seen on the internet. Seriously. The sheer amount of information I can gleen from these interviews is worth so much more than almost anything I can think of. I'm busily copying many interviews and pasting them in plain-text format in order to read something when I have no internet or for when the end of the world arrives, whichever comes first. I'm resisting reading them online, though I have succumbed a few times. Congratulations to the Paris Review for making these available and again to jamesbritt for thinking of posting this link on Hacker News.

jamesbritt 16y ago
I had read various interviews over the years, and was stuck by how thoughtful they tended to be, on matters of writing and craft in general. Having them now online is real treasure, and just struck me as the sort of thing HN'ers would appreciate.