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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a position best exemplified by …
Paper Lion
In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions� pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.
As Told At the Explorers Club
For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. Its a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the …
Ernest Hemingway : den sista intervjun och andra konversationer
”Den viktigaste talangen för en begåvad författare är en inbyggd, stötsäker, skitdetektor.” – Ernest HemingwayEn av det tjugonde århundradets mest inflytelserika litterära ikoner …
Truman Capote
Using oral biography, a technique that perfectly matches the style of his subject, George Plimpton blends the voices of Capote's lovers, haters, acquaintances, and colleagues into …
The Education of Shakespeare: Illustrated From the Schoolbooks in Use in His Time
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring
George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism -- stepping into the ring against a champion boxer -- in Shadow Box, repackaged and including …
The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba
For a half-century, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, a breathtakingly diverse and …