Paris Review Joins the Web

The Paris Review interviews were one of the main inspirations when I decided to start talking with writers, though I can't pretend to anything like their thoroughness. As you can see for yourself starting tomorrow, when the magazine begins publishing its entire archive of interviews freely accessible online. They're releasing two interviews with William Styron (for whom, not so coincidentally, they're throwing a party tonight) and everything else from the 1950s goes live Monday, while the remaining material will be staggered over the next six to eight months. This will certainly make up for losing the tattered paperbacks I horded during college and graduate school until I had to de-accessorize to pay the rent one month...