Paris Reviewed

Calling it "the DNA of literature," the Paris Review will build a complete library of PDF files of their author interviews online, starting with the 1950s, including Faulkner, Henry Green, and Nelson Algren, on "Man With the Golden Arm": Well, if you're going to write a war novel, you have to do it while you're in the war. If you don't do the thing while you're there—at least the way I operate—you can't do it. It slips away. Two months after the was it was gone; but I was living in a living situation, and... I find it pretty hard to write on anything in the past... and this thing just got more real; I mean, the neighborhood I was living in, and these people, were a lot more real than the Army was.