{"id":1622,"date":"2010-03-22T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:31:44","slug":"the-paris-review-interview-nadine-gordimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/the-paris-review-interview-nadine-gordimer\/","title":{"rendered":"the paris review interview: nadine gordimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1953, when the first issue of The Paris Review appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, the magazine&#8217;s Q&#038;A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: The Paris Review interview. <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadine-Gordimer-by-Porges.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nadine Gordimer by Porges\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadine-Gordimer-by-Porges.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadine-Gordimer-by-Porges-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><br \/>\nNadine Gordimer (c) Dan Porges<\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are other interviews that fascinate me more.  Truman Capote&#8217;s, for instance.  But the thing that caught my eye today was a question put to the South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.    <em>Did the isolation of her childhood help her become a writer?  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This interview was conducted in two parts\u2014in the fall of 1979 and in the spring of 1980.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/media\/3060_GORDIMER.pdf\"target=_blank>View the Full Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1953, when the first issue of The Paris Review appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, the magazine&#8217;s Q&#038;A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: The Paris Review interview. Nadine Gordimer (c) Dan Porges There are other interviews<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}