The American Literary Interview

An Aesthetics

Authors

  • Lucy Cheseldine University of York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/77-2552

Keywords:

Paris Review, Donald Hall, cold war, individualism

Abstract

The interview is a form well-known to the New American Studies Journal: A Forum. In this essay, Lucy Cheseldine explores the ways in which the literary interview can be considered a modern — and modern American — form. There is a particular focus on the aesthetic dimensions of the form, as embodied most prominently in the famous Paris Review interviews.

Author Biography

Lucy Cheseldine, University of York

Lucy Cheseldine is a postdoctoral researcher in Twenty-first Century American poetry. She completed her PhD on 'Donald Hall's Poetics of Process' at the University of Leeds. Her scholarship has been published in journals including Essays in Criticism and Oxford Research in English, and is forthcoming in The Cambridge Quarterly and Modernist Cultures. Lucy has studied and taught in Glasgow, Alabama, Dublin, Tokyo and York. She is a practicing poet and writes regularly for PN Review and Stand. She is also passionate about outreach and works as a public engagement specialist. 

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Published

2025-10-15

How to Cite

Cheseldine, L. “The American Literary Interview: An Aesthetics”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 77, Oct. 2025, https://doi.org/10.18422/77-2552.

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Vol. 77 (2025): Aesthetics

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