Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered together, 'a bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about their prose.' (Observer)

This new edition is introduced by Salman Rushdie and includes interviews with:

William Styron
Marianne Moore
Ezra Pound
E.B. White
P.G. Wodehouse
John Ashbery
Philip Roth
Maya Angelou
Orhan Pamuk
V.S. Naipaul
Stephen Sondheim
Haruki Murakami
David Grossman
Marilynne Robinson