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; a
former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and a
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 years - 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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