Re: Interview


Subject: Re: Interview
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 09:13:01 EST


On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:07:32 -0500 (EST) Paul Kennedy
<kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:

> I've got some specific suggestions, though, for Lucy-Ruth.... Don't spend
> too much time on mechanical questions about how he got published--even
> though I know that's what lots of young writers might be interesting in
> learning. Unless he's truly shallow, those sorts of questions will bore him
> stiff. Treat him like a writer, rather than a businessman. Aim all your
> questions towards the ultimate: Why? ....and you're sure to get some
> interesting answers along the way.

Happily, I can get all the boring information from other sources. It
will be a strange experience interviewing Richard because (as you may
have guessed from the way I talk about him) I know him (he is a good
friend of my best friend), but I want to keep the actual interview on a
more professional level. It's nice to get a rapport with an
interviewee, but when you know them already this can just degenerate
into a random talk... which does mean I could publish all sorts of
mildly salacious facts about him, but I'm really not that kind of gal.

It's so nice to get all this sort of inside information on interviewing
people, Paul and Will. It's really interesting and helpful to me also.

Lots of love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk

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