Playboy Interview: Michael Jordan
A conversation with a 29-year-old approaching his apex.
A conversation with a 29-year-old approaching his apex.
Mark Vancil Playboy May 1992 40min Permalink
A wide-ranging chat with the magazine editor.
Michael Kinsley New York Nov 2012 20min Permalink
An out-of-character conversation.
Eric Spitznagel Playboy Oct 2012 30min Permalink
I can’t ask anything. Once in a while if I’m forced into it I will conduct an interview, but it’s usually pro forma, just to establish my credentials as somebody who’s allowed to hang around for a while. It doesn’t matter to me what people say to me in the interview because I don’t trust it.
Hilton Als, Joan Didion The Paris Review Apr 2006 30min Permalink
A conversation with Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation.
Elina Shatkin, Nick Offerman The Believer Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The evolution of an obsession.
Lisa Hix, Steven Martin Collectors Weekly Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Talking with the influential New York gallerist.
Matthew Higgs, Paula Cooper Interview Aug 2012 15min Permalink
INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.
Gerald Clarke, Gore Vidal The Paris Review Sep 1976 40min Permalink
The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.
Jessica Francis Kane The Morning News Jul 2012 10min Permalink
The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.
Spike Lee, Will Leitch New York Jul 2012 25min Permalink
Transcript of the 1969 Montreal “bed-in.”
JOHN: How long have you been there, in the teepee? I mean, before you sussed the wind and everything, and you know, got your senses back? ROSEMARY: We had to put the teepee up three times before it was right. It’s like you can touch it, and it resounds like a drone, and then it’s perfect, the canvas. It’s a wind instrument that plays like a drone.
Timothy Leary Archives Jun 2012 15min Permalink
An interview with Marc Maron.
Kyle Dowling, Marc Maron The Believer Jun 2012 20min Permalink
An interview with John Waters.
Real life is seeing and art is looking. If you’re successful, it’s a magic trick: you take one thing, and you put it in here, and it changes in one second, and then you can never look at that thing again the same way. That is what art is to me.
Drew Daniel, John Waters Frieze Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
“I didn’t realize who my father was. So it didn’t make a whole lot of difference. I wasn’t there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father.”
Alexandra Jaffe The Hairpin May 2012 10min Permalink
A free-ranging conversation between music writers Simon Reynolds and Greil Marcus.
How reality TV has changed tattooing.
Tattoos and tattoo artists have an undeniable power to attract, repulse, and intimidate. But when confronted with all this life and color, reality TV steamrolls it into the familiar “drama” of preening divas and wounded pride. “Everybody thinks they’re gonna change it,” said Anna Paige, an artist who said she’d turned down her chance at TV stardom. “Everybody thinks they’re gonna have some power.” But wait, isn’t she profiting from tattooing’s mass appeal? “I would have made money anyway.”
Alex Halperin Guernica Mar 2012 15min Permalink
An interview:
Watkins: And then, all of a sudden, you notice that it appears that he is falling asleep and gasping for air—like he is snoring, basically. You could classify it as snoring or as gasping for air. You see his chest moving, and then I guess very quickly—maybe two minutes in—his chest stops moving. And we stand there, I guess, for another 10 minutes, and everybody is just kind of standing there. D Magazine: In total silence? Watkins: No one’s talking. No one’s saying anything. And then you notice that the condemned, he starts to turn this bluish color. So I guess that’s when all his functions have stopped. And then a doctor walks in and takes his vital signs and announces that the person is—he looks at the clock and announces, “The person died at 6:22.” And then they open the door and we all walk out.
Craig Watkins, Zac Crain D Magazine Apr 2012 Permalink
This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the page with considerable misgivings . . . indeed, what follows can be considered an interview conducted with himself, by himself.
David Hayman, David Michaelis, George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Rhodes The Paris Review Apr 1977 40min Permalink
On Abbey Road studios, the Beatles, and modern record production.
Taylor Parkes The Quietus Mar 2012 20min Permalink
The artist discusses her latest record, Biophilia, science and music education.
Up until she developed a vocal-cord nodule a few years ago, Björk made a point of not investigating how that instrument worked. “With arrangements and lyrics,” she says, squinting over her coffee, “I work more with the left side of my brain. But my voice has always been very right brain. I didn’t try to analyze it at all. I didn’t even know until I started all this voice work, two years ago, what my range was. I didn’t want to let the academic side into that—I worried the mystery would go.”
Nitsuh Abebe New York Feb 2012 10min Permalink
On the popular iPhone app.
Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed like a real sign that Instagram had arrived. Obama already has accounts on Flickr and Facebook. He (or his people) must have seen something unique and wonderful in Instagram's audience, some way to reach people via that channel that it couldn't through others. When the President joins your network, it's news. And while it's great news, it can be the kind of thing a company isn't prepared for. But as it turns out, Obama is a fractional compared to Justin Bieber.
A profile of the artist.
"Unfortunately, death is a fact of life. I don't think it's happened to me any more unfairly than to anyone else. It could always be worse. I've lost a lot of people, but I haven't lost everybody. I didn't lose my parents or my family. But it's been an incredible education, facing death, facing it the way that I've had to face it at this early age."
David Sheff Rolling Stone Aug 1989 40min Permalink
An interview with the former president about the upcoming election and American consensus.
Charles P. Pierce, Mark Warren Esquire Feb 2012 30min Permalink
But now, being a celebrity yourself, you feel differently? I've subsequently changed my opinion. Brad Pitt doesn't have a superpower at his back. He just has some crazed fans and paparazzi. But now, having had all three, I must say, I'm not terribly impressed with the experience.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Jan 2012 35min Permalink
After a Chinese immigrant couple were charged in their daughter’s death, supporters say they’re vulnerable targets of the American justice system.
Corey Kilgannon, Jeffrey E. Singer New York Times Jan 2012 10min Permalink