“I remember saying once, I canÄôt understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems; itÄôs like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Whoever I was talking to said, TheyÄôd do that too, if their agents could fix it.” Phillip Larkin in the Paris Review.
Tag: interviews
I’d never thought to look for it before, but I wish I had: interviewer Charlie Rose has an amazing online archive.
A couple weeks ago, NPR hosted an awful interview with Sigur Ros. Incredibly painful to watch. They recently followed up, bringing in music writer Jancee Dunn to help with a director’s commentary to find out where all the suckage came from.
Thank you thank you. I love this stuff. The latest in Rebecca Blood’s Bloggers on Blogging series, an interview with Scott Rosenberg.
Hugh MacLeod has 10 questions for Seth Godin. Seth on wealth: “Look, there are 8 million millionaires in the USA. Why do these people go to work every day? Why not downsize appropriately and just sit on the beach? Because they’re too smart. They realize that the purpose of living isn’t to bake in the sun until you die.”
Mark Larson 