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| PIER PAOLO PASOLINI |
| "Pictures of Friuli" |
| Read by Peter Borten |
| Salon, November 2001. |
Jacketless, in the jasmine air
I lose myself walking in the evening
breathing – greedy and overcome, to the point
of nonexistence… |
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| BENJAMIN PERCY |
| Me vs. Animals |
| December 2009. |
| I pawed loose a fist-sized stone from the hillside and, without bothering to take aim, or to second-guess myself, I hurled it at the moose. I hit it squarely along the ribs, its fur and fat and muscle rippling outward. |
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| GEORGE PLIMPTON |
| Pet Peeves |
| July 2000. |
| My name is George Plimpton, and I'm the author of a new book which is called Pet Peeves, or Whatever Happened to Dr. Rawff? The book is a series of letters designed to drive a veterinarian mad… |
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| GEORGE PLIMPTON |
| "Paul Tavilla" |
| SummerStage, August 2003. |
| Paul Tavilla arrived at my apartment with a suitcase full of large, purple grapes… |
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| PHILIP ROTH |
| Philip Roth at the 2010 Spring Revel |
| Spring Revel, April 2010. |
| I was ecstatically happy. The Paris Review and the Holland America Line had carried me a long way from correcting comma faults at the University of Chicago. [Click here to read a transcript of Roth's speech.] |
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| WILL SELF |
| Philip Gourevitch and Will Self on George Orwell |
| August 2007. |
| Philip Gourevitch and Will Self discuss the legacy of George Orwell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, courtesy of ABC Radio National's The Book Show, hosted by Ramona Koval. |
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| CHARLIE SMITH |
| "Los Dos Rancheros" |
| Salon, April 2001. |
I can see the moon like a bullet sunk in the clouds' body and it seems to me the worst has happened… |
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| STEPHEN SPENDER |
| The Art of Poetry No. 25 |
| June 2000. |
| Looking out of a railway window and seeing an industrial landscape, factories, slag heaps, and that kind of thing, and the line coming into my head: 'A language of flesh and roses...' |
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| WILLIAM STYRON |
| from Lie Down In Darkness |
| Read by Ed Harris |
| Paris Review Revel, Cipriani, December 2004. |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| Air Force Journalism |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| I had written stuff in high school, even junior. But I hadn't really thought about it as a solution to my problem…I wasn't adjusting too well to society at large… |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| On Humphrey and Muskie |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| In terms of literal truth, levels of truth, all I said in print was that there were rumors in Milwaukee that the candidate was getting a strange drug called Ibogaine… |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| Origin of Fear and Loathing |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| Fear and Loathing. Once you get that kind of title down, there's no way you're going to change it. Unless you're a complete asshole? |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| Smuggling Currency |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| When I went in there, into Saigon, I carried thirty thousand dollars of the Newsweek payroll. In cash. Strapped to my body, or taped. And, ah, that was against the law… |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| Why Go to Vietnam? |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| The war had been so much a part of my life, for so long…I just wanted to see it, be a part of the end of it… |
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| HUNTER S. THOMPSON |
| Rolling Stone |
| Interview, December 2000. |
| I was making the argument that Rolling Stone should cover politics; I made it pretty heatedly… |
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| WELLS TOWER |
| "Down through the Valley" |
| Salon, November 2001. |
| We reached the car, and I held the door open for him, but he didn't climb in right away. He stood there rocking on his crutch, gazing off at the sky and the fields and the fall trees starting to go the color of sherbet… |
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