see its influence on other journals and periodicals. (Rolling Stone periodically seems to attempt emulating one or another of Interview’s stylistic design features, generally with disastrous results.)
The question-and-answer format is the classic and most familiar type of interview. Another approach, seen increasingly frequently, is the monologue style. Here the person appears to start talking and goes on uninterrupted to the end. This is a hybrid of an essay and an interview, and obviously a lot of editorial cutting and pasting go into making a readable and cohesive whole. Only the interviewee and interviewer know how faithful the end product is to the original discussion, but in the hands of a fairminded and
skillful interviewer, the result can be finely crafted and revealing.
