{"product_id":"janet-malcolm-the-last-interview-isbn-9781612199689","title":"Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative collection of interviews with the sublimely talented author of \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe legendary journalist, Janet Malcolm, opened her most famous work \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e with the line: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since its publication in 1980, she only increased her reputation as a devastatingly sharp writer, whose eye for observation is matched only by her formal inventiveness and philosophical interrogations of the relationship between journalist and subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePredictably, as an interview subject herself, she was an intimidating mark. In this collection, interviewers tangle with their own projections and identifications, while she often, gamely, plays along. Full of insights about her writing process, the craft of journalism, and her own analysis of her most famous works, this collection proves that Janet Malcolm is just as elusive and enlightening in conversation as she was on paper.\"...The transcripts channel and help explain Malcolm’s  mesmerizing journalism, only the tables are turned. Reading the  interviews has the perverse quality of seeing a judge on trial or your  analyst in therapy.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e -- n+1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"...Seeing the trajectory of Malcolm’s pointed observations over nearly two  decades is a treat. Fans of the prolific writer will want to pick up  this showcase of her characteristic wit.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e-- Publishers Weekly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Readers unfamiliar with Malcolm’s work will get a sense of her importance from the five interviews collected in the publisher’s latest entry in their \u003ci\u003eLast Interview\u003c\/i\u003e series.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- Kirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Melville House has put together a tight, handy volume, easy to read in  one sitting. Many Malcolm fans will be happy to race through it and be  in her company once again.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- The Post and Courier \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Malcolm\u003c\/b\u003e was an American writer, journalist on staff at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and collagist.  She was the author of \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Freud Archives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. She wrote frequently about psychoanalysis as well as the relationship of the journalist to subject and was known for her prose style as well as polarizing criticism of her own profession, though her most contentious work, \u003ci\u003eThe Journalist and the Murderer,\u003c\/i\u003e became a mainstay of journalism-school curricula.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Roiphe\u003c\/b\u003e is an American author and journalist, best known for her non-fiction examination \u003ci\u003eThe Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). Introduction by Katie Roiphe","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303246188773,"sku":"NP9781612199689","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612199689.jpg?v=1767730344","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/janet-malcolm-the-last-interview-isbn-9781612199689","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}