Conversations with Jay Parini
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Conversations with Jay Parini

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Conversations with Jay Parini

About this book

Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important interviews with the former Guggenheim fellow; former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Parini's work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. Parini's life and writings often seem like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking and trading stories. He has openly written poems in conversation with writers he knew personally: Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has, in his own life, kept an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the yearsā€”Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A. N. Wilson, and countless others. These interviews offer a more comprehensive understanding of Parini's work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understanding of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, all of which Parini has played an important role in shaping.

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Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below
Ackroyd, Peter
Adams, John
Adams, Sherman
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
aesthetics
Alcott, Louisa May
All the Kingā€™s Men, See also Warren, Robert Penn
American character
Amherst College
Anderson Depot
Anthracite Country
Antin, Mary. See also Promised Land, The
anti-Semitism. See Holocaust
Apprentice Lover, The
Ariel. See also Plath, Sylvia
Arnold, Bonnie
Articles of Confederation
Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems, The
Ashe, Anthony
Astapovo, Russia. See also Tolstoy, Leo
Auden, W. H.
authenticity. See also truth and history
authorā€™s note, See also writerā€™s responsibility
autobiography
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The. See also Franklin, Benjamin
Barnes, Julian
Barthes, Roland
Bay of Arrows
Beattie, Ann
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beloved
Benfey, Christopher
Benjamin, Walter
Benjaminā€™s Crossing
Berlin, Isaiah
Berryman, John
Beyond the Godfather
Biddle, Nicholas
Bierce, Ambrose
Billy Budd. See also Melville, Herman
biographical novel, See also biographical novel; fact/fiction dichotomy; historical fiction
biography, See also Faulkner, William; Frost, Robert; Jesus; Steinbeck, John
Bloom, Harold
Book of Mormon
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bradford, William. See also Of Plymouth Plantation
Bread Loaf Writersā€™ Conference
Brecht, Bertolt
Brooks, Cleanth
Brown, George Mackay
Browning, Robert
Bulgakov, Valentin
Bush, George W.
Cambodia
Campion, Thomas
Carnegie, Dale
Central America
character development
Chatterton. See also Ackroyd, Peter
Chertkov, Vladimir
Chomsky, Noam
Christian, Reginald
Christianity. See also religion
Civil Rights Act
Clark, William. See also Journals of Lewis and Clark, The
Cold Mountain
C...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chronology
  8. The Poetsā€”Strangers on the Edge of Town
  9. Jay Parini Interview with Don Swaim
  10. Interview with Chris Bohjalian
  11. Jay Parini Interview: Robert Frost: A Life
  12. An Interview with Jay Parini
  13. Writerā€™s Craft: Floating Ideas with Literary Legend Jay Parini
  14. Jay Pariniā€™s The Last Station: Tolstoyā€™s Final Year
  15. Jay Parini on Why Poetry Matters
  16. The Books That Changed America
  17. After Words: Jay Parini, Promised Land
  18. Interview with Jay Parini
  19. Reflections on Biographical Fiction
  20. The Uses of History in the Biographical Novel: A Conversation with Jay Parini, Bruce Duffy, and Lance Olsen
  21. Self-Interview: JP talks to Jay Parini
  22. Index