Maya Angelou 1988 · Winston-Salem
Shop & prepare dinner
Afternoon · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 14:00 illustrates the sequence; no duration is known.Source timing: After the morning’s work, before dinner.
“I go out and shop”
Short verbatim excerpt · Maya Angelou · interview by George Plimpton
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The Art of Fiction No. 119
The Paris Review 116 · Fall 1990 · based on their 1988 conversation at 92Y
Questions about starting a working day and revising
Passage: Answer about revising
Timing & context
After returning home and showering.
Her hotel-writing routine, with variable finishing hours. Evening revision could also follow dinner; no bedtime is supplied.
1988 is the year of the conversation underlying the 1990 interview, according to The Paris Review’s 2017 retrospective. Its introduction places her home in Winston-Salem; the hotel-room habits she describes were practiced in several towns.
The Paris Review · dating the conversation ↗