Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on
television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool
of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects,
and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a
major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How
did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find
so appealing and horrifying? Are we all just gossips or is there
something more to it? What are the implications of our reliance on
this bizarre dynamic for publicity, subjectivity, and democracy?
Literature and the Rise of the Interview addresses these questions
from the perspective of literary culture. The book traces the ways
in which the interview form has been conceived and deployed by
writers, and interviewing has been understood as a
literary-critical practice. It excavates what we might call a
'poetics' of the interview form and practice. In so doing it covers
150 years and four continents. It includes a diverse rostrum of
well-known writers, such as Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,
Djuna Barnes, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee and
Toni Morrison, while reintroducing some individuals that history
has forgotten, such as Betty Ross, 'Queen of Interviewers', and
Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel's profligate son. Together these
stories expose the interview's position in the literary imagination
and consider what this might tell us about conceptions of
literature, authorship, and reading communities in modernity.
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