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John Steinbeck in 1949. Photograph courtesy of Los Angeles Daily News via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. LICENSED UNDER CC BY 4.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each week,\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews from our archive for our readers. This week, we\u2019ve unlocked the two parts of John Steinbeck\u2019s Art of Fiction interview from issue no. 45<\/a> (Fall 1969) and issue no. 63<\/a> (Fall 1975). <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI have noticed so many of the reviews of my work show a fear and a hatred of ideas and speculations,\u201d wrote John Steinbeck<\/span> in an unsent letter to his editor, Pascal Covici. \u201cIt seems to be true,\u201d he continued, \u201cthat people can only take parables fully clothed with flesh. Any attempt to correlate in terms of thought is frightening. And if that is so, East of Eden<\/em> is going to take a bad beating because it is full of such things.\u201d<\/p>\n

For issue no. 48 of the Review<\/em>, published in the fall of 1969, the magazine\u2019s editorial staff compiled a number of comments<\/a> Steinbeck<\/span> had made over the years\u2014on topics like \u201cthe art of writing,\u201d \u201ctitles,\u201d and \u201cluck\u201d\u2014mostly sourced from the unsent letters Steinbeck<\/span> wrote to Covici while drafting East of Eden<\/em>. In the fall of 1975, the Review<\/em> published a continuation<\/a> of that interview, including passages in which Steinbeck<\/span> comments on \u201chack writing,\u201d \u201chaving a writer in the family,\u201d and \u201cfame.\u201d This week, we\u2019ve unlocked both interviews from the archive.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEW
\n<\/small>The Art of Fiction No. 45<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nJohn Steinbeck<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn\u2019t telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say\u2014and to feel\u2014\u201cYes, that\u2019s the way it is, or at least that\u2019s the way I feel it. You\u2019re not as alone as you thought.\u201d Of course a writer rearranges life, shortens time intervals, sharpens events, and devises beginnings, middles and ends. We do have curtains\u2014in a day, morning, noon and night, in a man, birth, growth and death.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 48 (Fall 1969)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

INTERVIEW<\/small>
\nThe Art of Fiction No. 45 (Continued)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nJohn Steinbeck<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
\n

My first gem called forth quite adverse criticism, although I considered it extremely apropos at the time. It was published on a board fence, and was in the form of free verse. It ran something like this:<\/p>\n

Gertie loves Tom, and
\nTom loves Gertie.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 63 (Fall 1975)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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