Just ask the question: An ongoing list of great interviews

What are your favorites?

It’s one of my favorite forms of journalism, the interview. The ones I like most go to unexpected places, beyond typical work or creative process type questions, and reveal something human and universal about the subject, and life.

So I’ve put together a running, and incomplete, list here of some of my favorites. What are your favorite interviews? Feel free to leave a comment and I’ll add them here.

Joe Hyams interviews Frank Sinatra

Charlie Rose interviews Bill Murray

Studs Terkel interviews Hunter S. Thompson

Terry Gross interviews Maurice Sendak

Chris Wallace interviews Oliver Stone

Lilian Terry interviews Nina Simone

Alex Frank interviews Aretha Franklin

David Sheff interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Alex Haley interviews Malcolm X

Mike Wallace interviews Frank Lloyd Wright

Benjamin Svetkey interviews Tupac Shakur

Cal Fussman interviews Larry King

George Plimpton interviews Ernest Hemingway

David Granger and Scott Raab interview Bill Murray

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