American writer, journalist, actor, and editor, served as editor of the Paris Review from its first issue in 1953, guiding its publication of serious fiction and poetry, especially the works of new talent, and interviews with well-known writers. He was more generally renowned, however, as a participatory journalist, engaging in a host of activities—including playing baseball, footbal, ice hockey, boxing, circus performing, golfing, and playing percussion in an orchestra—and then writing about the experience.
(read less)American writer, journalist, actor, and editor, served as editor of the Paris Review from its first issue in 1953, guiding its publication of serious fiction and poetry, especially the works of new talent, and interviews with well-known writers. He was more generally renowned, however, as a participatory journalist, engaging in a host of activities—including playing baseball, footbal, ice hockey, boxing, circus performing, golfing, and playing percussion in an orchestra—and then writing about...
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