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An Interview with Lawrence Weschler (about how to interview, among other things)

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Author: Kyle Minor
Source: The Rumpus
Published: Feb 8, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,674 words)

Interview with Heart’s Nancy Wilson

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The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. My family was living on the marine base in Camp Pendleton, California, and we’d all gathered around the little black-and-white TV at our grandmother’s in La Jolla. Most people didn’t have color sets at home back then. There’d been so much anticipation and hype about the Beatles that it was a huge event, like the lunar landing: that was the moment Ann and I heard the call to become rock musicians. I was seven or eight at the time.

Source: The Believer
Published: Aug 28, 2007
Length: 23 minutes (5,893 words)

Interview with Artist Gary Panter, set designer for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

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Source: The Believer
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 19 minutes (4,855 words)

The Eminem interview

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The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit

Published: May 13, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,728 words)

After the Great Recession: Interview with President Obama

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This was our third interview about the economy, the first two occurring during last year’s campaign. And while the setting was decidedly more formal this time — the Oval Office — the interview felt as conversational as those earlier ones. We sat at the far end of the office from his desk and spoke for 50 minutes.

Published: Apr 28, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,190 words)

Conversations About The Internet #1: The Rumpus Interview with Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone

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Source: The Rumpus
Published: Apr 17, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,245 words)

Interview with David Foster Wallace

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“My own plan for the coming fourteen months is to knock on doors and stuff envelopes. Maybe even to wear a button. To try to accrete with others into a demographically significant mass. To try extra hard to exercise patience, politeness, and imagination on those with whom I disagree. Also to floss more.”

Source: The Believer
Published: Nov 11, 2003
Length: 25 minutes (6,308 words)

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)

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“We’ve done studies that prove that the mouse is faster than traditional ways of moving through data or applications. Someday we may be able to build a color screen for a reasonable price. As to overpricing, the start-up of a new product makes it more expensive than it will be later. The more we can produce, the lower the price will get.”

Source: Playboy
Published: Feb 1, 1985
Length: 69 minutes (17,287 words)

Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview (1994)

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“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet—basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. They were able to copy the Mac because the Mac was frozen in time. The Mac didn’t change much for the last 10 years. It changed maybe 10 percent. It was a sitting duck. It’s amazing that it took Microsoft 10 years to copy something that was a sitting duck. Apple, unfortunately, doesn’t deserve too much sympathy.”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Jun 16, 1994
Length: 23 minutes (5,938 words)

Playboy Interview: Steve Martin (1993)

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The real laughs always come from something very small and surprising—although another one they didn’t get in “The Jerk” is when I’m hitchhiking to St. Louis. My character’s name is Navin Johnson. A guy pulls over in his car and asks, “St. Louis?” and I go, “Uh, no, Navin Johnson.” I told the line to Carl Reiner [the movie’s writer and director] and we laughed for forty-five minutes. It’s so stupid! But in the movie, it just kind of goes away.

Source: Playboy
Published: Jan 1, 1993
Length: 47 minutes (11,835 words)