Title
"My Mind is Weak but my Body is Strong": George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition
Document Type
Article
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.
Published in
Midwest Quarterly
Volume
30
Issue
3
Date
Fall 1989
Pages
372-386
COinS
Citation
Nadel, Alan. “‘My Mind is Weak but my Body is Strong’: George Plimpton and the Boswellian Tradition.” Midwest Quarterly 30, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 372-86.