- Title
- "My Mind is Weak but my Body is Strong": George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition
- Author/Creator
- Alan Nadel
- Publication Details
- Midwest Quarterly, Vol.30(3), pp.372-386
- Annotation
- Comments on the Boswell technique of interviewing, which aims to elicit the maximum rise from (the) subject and thus guarantee the most dynamic copy. Recounts the interview between Plimpton and Hemingway in which Plimpton asked the most mundane and irritating questions.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132248503691
Journal article
"My Mind is Weak but my Body is Strong": George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition
Midwest Quarterly, Vol.30(3), pp.372-386
10/01/1989
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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