theparisreview: “ “As he ascended into the Himalayas, he felt as if he were walking into a myth, up into the mountains and back in time. ‘If I can’t get a good book out of this,’ he remembers thinking to himself, ‘I ought to be shot.’” New York Times...
theparisreview: “ “As he ascended into the Himalayas, he felt as if he were walking into a myth, up into the mountains and back in time. ‘If I can’t get a good book out of this,’ he remembers thinking to himself, ‘I ought to be shot.’” New York Times...
theparisreview: “ “As he ascended into the Himalayas, he felt as if he were walking into a myth, up into the mountains and back in time. ‘If I can’t get a good book out of this,’ he remembers thinking to himself, ‘I ought to be shot.’” New York Times...

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“As he ascended into the Himalayas, he felt as if he were walking into a myth, up into the mountains and back in time. ‘If I can’t get a good book out of this,’ he remembers thinking to himself, ‘I ought to be shot.’”

New York Times Magazine profiles author and Paris Review co-founder Peter Matthiessen.

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