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E. L. Doctorow, the Art of Fiction No. 94 (1986)
- dang 11y agoSee also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927277.
- qnaal 11y agowhere does he get these sevens?
- firebones 11y agoI have little to say about his passing, other than loving the bits of E. L. Doctorow's writing I've read in the past and missing his work going forward. But I will say that the Paris Review Interviews are a treasure trove of insight into some of the most creative cultural minds we've had. To tie this back to tech, Susan Lammers' "Programmers at Work" interviews from the mid-1980s (consistently), and Jessica Livingston's "Founders at Work" (at its best) both bring this same kind of openness and honesty. I found Lammers' book to hold up better, perhaps because the interviewees were seminal names in the personal computing era and by and large not self-aware of image at the time, while only a handful of Livingston's subjects hit that sweet spot.) Both books deserve a place on your shelf. I have a browser chock full o' tabs of Paris Review interviews to wade through now...