Robert Pirsig Grants Rare Interview

by publicreader | November 19, 2006 at 11:21 am

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The Seventies bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was the biggest-selling philosophy book ever. But for the reclusive author life was bitter-sweet. Here, he talks frankly about anxiety, depression, the death of his son and the road trip that inspired a classic.

Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance also holds a place in the Guinness Book of World records as the bestselling book (5 million copies) rejected by the largest number of publishers (121).Tim Adams interviews him here in what is possibly his last public interview,and it is definitely worth a read. Among other tidbits, we learn that Robert Redford tried to buy the film rights to the book,but the author turned him down. And Pirsig's son experienced the famous motorcycle trip as "a good time."