"No
author can be a snob - he'd be out of business."
J.P. Donleavy from an
interview, Publishers Weekly, Oct. 31, 1986
"Traveler, Consider My Dublin...Talk your way out of it"
Esquire, April, 1967
Listed as a travel piece by Donleavy (as told to Richard Joseph). Not sure at this point if it's an interview or a transcription of a narrative.
"Interview With J.P. Donleavy"
The Listener, March 16, 1969.
JPD one of those interviewed. Air date? Circa late '60s - early '70s. Details being researched.
To purchase books by J.P. Donleavy, go to the Buyers' Guide.
"Talking With JP Donleavy"
zigzag, #28, Feb., 1973
Contains
3-page Donleavy interview.
Read the interview.
"The
Art of Fiction LIII - J. P. Donleavy"
The
Paris Review, #63,
1975
The author interviewed by Molly McKaughan, assisted by Fayette Hickox. A very well-done piece in which Donleavy explains much of the circumstances surrounding the writing and publishing of his early works.
Read the Interview. (PDF format)
"JP Donleavy "
Club, September, 1975
Contains an interview with JPD.
"JP Donleavy "
Men Only, Circa 1970s, Volume 40 No. 10
Contains interview with JPD.
"JP Donleavy: The Gingerly Man"
Celebrity, Volume 2, No. 5, May 1976
Article with interview quotes by Sherry Romeo,
"Auberon
Waugh Goes to Visit JP Donleavy - A Singular Man"
(Special thanks to John Baxter for providing the clipping of this article/interview)
The
Times, (London) Saturday Review section, July 24, 1976. An
extremely well-penned piece by renowned journalist/author Auberon Waugh (son
of Evelyn Waugh).
Read the article/interview.
"Interview
with J.P. Donleavy"
Journal
of Irish Literature 8, Jan. 1978 - by K. Jacobsen.
"Title?"
Bailey & Litchfield's RITZ Newspaper, No. 17 1978
Article on Donleavy with interview quotes.
"J.P. Donleavy Talks About Living in Ireland"
The Listener, March 16, 1978
Donleavy interview.
"JP
Donleavy Discusses Olympia Press"
Publishers
Weekly, April 30, 1979
JPD in
conversation with Stella Dong.
Read the article/interview.
"JP
Donleavy"
Audio cassette | Tapes for Readers, Washington, D.C., 1980
An interview on audio cassette conducted by Stephen Banker. For details see
JPD Audio. Email
Stephen Banker
to purchase.
Radio interview with JPD. A.B.C., Sydney, 1980. Was issued on cassette tape. Very scarce.
Radio reading by JPD and interview by Tom Vitale, A Moveable Feast. Date? Was once available on cassette but now is very scarce.
"Writer in his Haven"
Publishers Weekly Jan. 23, 1981
Article by R.H. Brown with JPD quotes.
"J.P. Donleavy "
Penthouse, UK Feb., 1982
Interview with Donleavy.
"PW Interviews: JP Donleavy"
Publishers Weekly October 24, 1986
Researching details.
"Interview With JP Donleavy"
Publishers Weekly October 31, 1986
Interview
by Amanda Smith.
Read the interview.
"Writers
Talk: Ideas of Our Times - JP Donleavy"
with Frank Delaney.
The
Roland Collection
of Films and Videos on Art. 45 minutes. Color. Available in a variety of international
formats including VHS-NTSC and PAL. Shot in 1987.
Interview on video cassette.
JP Donleavy appears in a segment of a series of "Guardian Interviews" in candid
conversation with Frank Delaney.
For more details, see JPD Video.
"The
Bawdy Electric - JP Donleavy Keeps It Up"
(Special thanks to Sally Eckhoff for providing her excellent article/interview)
Voice
Literary Supplement, October 1988. Sally Eckhoff covers a lot of ground in
this great piece.
Read the article/interview.
"Audio Interview with J.P. Donleavy"
A 47-minute
radio interview with JPD by Don Swaim, recorded in 1988.
The interview is downloadable at the Wired
for Books site. (Real Audio format)
Writers
Talk to Ralph D. Gardner
by
Ralph D. Gardner, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1989, Cloth, 355 pages, ISBN 0810821435
Collection of interviews with authors covering a period from 1974 to 1986,
transcribed from Mr. Gardner's radio show. Writers other than JPD include:
Isaac Asimov, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut and Harlan Ellison.
"J.P.
Donleavy Artist and Author"
CV Journal of Art and Crafts, Issue 2/2, May, 1989, (transcribed from
a recorded interview with J.P. Donleavy on the occasion of his exhibition
at Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, Chelsea February, 1989
JPD
interviewed by Nick James.
For further information, visit the CV
publication website. Special thanks to Nick James for contributing this
fine interview.
"That singular saucy sagacity"
The Weekend Australian, March 17-18, 1990
A fine
piece by journalist Murray Waldren, which came out at the time of the Australian
publication of A Singular Country.
Read the interview.
"A Singular Day with J.P. Donleavy"
USA
Today, July 17, 1990
Excellent interview/article by William Dunn.
Read the interview/article.
"The Wild Irish Rogue"
GQ
(Gentleman's Quarterly), June, 1991
Article by A. Clancy with JPD quotes.
The Bloomsbury Review, Jan/Feb, 1992
Interview with Donleavy by E. Thomas Wood, Many thanks to Mr. Wood for allowing this well-conducted and informative interview to appear in full on this site.
Read the interview.
"Only for the Moment Am I Saying Nothing: An Interview with JP Donleavy"
Vengeance!
- a Passport Anthology #6, England - ISBN 1897779054, 1993
First
publication of an interview conducted by author/editor Thomas E. Kennedy (See
Literary Review entry below for extended version). (Special thanks
to Mr. Kennedy for info on both versions).
Read the extended version.
The Sunday Times, Cinema section, August 15, 1993
Article/Interview by John Burns dealing mostly with a film project of The Ginger Man . (Special thanks to Gareth Griffiths for sending this clipping)
