{"id":264,"date":"2019-09-15T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=264"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:04:44","slug":"27-interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/7-alterations\/8-original-version\/9-re-issue\/10-style\/11-fact-checking\/12-production\/13-proofing\/14-choices\/15-back-story\/16-mockup\/17-design\/18-design-2\/19-compromise\/20-discord\/21-supression\/22-contracts\/23-promotion\/24-market\/25-promotion\/26-review\/27-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"27 &#8211; Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>George Plimpton (1927-2003), interviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nlast interview that Hemingway granted was conducted in 1958 at Finca Vig\u00eda,\nHemingway\u2019s house in Havana, by George Plimpton. This conversation about the\nart of fiction is still considered one of the legendary <em>Paris Review<\/em> interviews. Plimpton, identified only as \u201cInterviewer\u201d\nin print, asked questions about influences, reading, and the practicalities of writing.\nTo a question about rewriting, Hemingway replied, \u201cYou get another chance to\ncorrect and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it in clean type.\u201d\nAs seen with Hemingway\u2019s galley revisions on \u201cGod rest ye merry gentlemen\u201d in\nthe previous case in this exhibition, \u201cthe last chance is in the proofs. You\u2019re\ngrateful for these different chances.\u201d About <em>A Farewell to Arms<\/em>, Hemingway said that he \u201crewrote the ending \u2026\nthe last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.\u201d Plimpton\nfollowed up, \u201cWhat was it that stumped you?\u201d Hemingway: \u201cGetting the words right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Ernest\nHemingway collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Transcript of George\nPlimpton interview with Ernest Hemingway, 1958<\/li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Typescript<\/strong> with autograph corrections, 17 pages<\/li><li>\u201cThe\nArt of Fiction XXI. Ernest Hemingway,\u201d <strong>page proofs<\/strong> (28 pages), 1958 <\/li><li>&#8220;The\nArt of Fiction [XXI]: Ernest Hemingway.&#8221; <em>Paris Review<\/em> (no. 18, Spring 1958, pages 61-89)<\/li><li><em>Paris Review.<\/em> \u201cCompliments of the\nEditors \u2026 on the occasion of Fifth Anniversary,\u201d <strong>distribution card<\/strong>, 1958<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author George Plimpton (1927-2003), interviewer The last interview that Hemingway granted was conducted in 1958 at Finca Vig\u00eda, Hemingway\u2019s house in Havana, by George Plimpton. This conversation about the art of fiction is still considered one of the legendary Paris Review interviews. Plimpton, identified only as \u201cInterviewer\u201d in print, asked questions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":262,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/505"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}