Jay Parini (b. 1948), is best known for The Last Station, a novel
about Leo Tolstoy's last year 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. MICHAEL LACKEY, Morris, Minnesota, is an associate
professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is the author
of African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of
the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith and The Modernist God State: A
Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich as well as numerous
articles in journals.
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