yes, the dna of literature project over at the paris review is off the ground. i was way off last week when i said i thought jack was interviewed in the 50s. he wasn’t interviewed until 1968 which means that not only will his interview not be released until january, but also that the jack that is interviewed could very well be the defensive, angry drunk jack of those last years.
even so, i’m looking forward to it. it must have been the late 60s when he appeared on william f. buckley’s show and told buckley that he thought the north vietnamese had initiated the war over there to “get more jeeps in the country.” after a quiet moment, buckley asked him if he thought they had been successful so far and jack said something to the effect of “well, they got a lot of jeeps over there now.” keep in mind, this at the height of the war.
nonetheless, along with the release of the first batch of the interviews, apparently the paris review got a whole new web site. it’s much more modern, but also much busier and even i, web navigator extraordinaire, can’t figure out how the hell to access the text of the interview with hemingway from 1958. if i do, watch out.
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