Sensational news: starting next Tuesday, November 11, The Paris Review will start putting its legendary author interviews online.

The best part: it's free.

Initially two interviews with William Styron, from 1954 and 1999, will go up.

Decade by decade, the archive of more than 300 interviews from the 1950s to the present will be posted, with the entire archive becoming available by May 16, 2005.

Internet users like you and me will be able to type in names or keywords to read, search, and download (!) more than 10,000 pages of author interviews.

Among the authors: James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Primo Levi, E.M. Forster, Gabriel García Marquez, Philip Roth, anyone of note will be in the treasure trove.

George Plimpton, who died last year at age 76, started this great magazine in 1953.