Kenneth Goldsmith compiles 37 Andy Warhol interviews spanning 1962-1987

A new French-language anthology, 'Andy Warhol, entretiens 1962-1987' (Grasset), collects 37 interviews with the artist spanning three decades, edited by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. The volume prioritizes the 1960s and draws primarily from Warhol's 'time capsules'—over 600 boxes of ephemera stored at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Goldsmith notes that only a fraction of these boxes have been inventoried, suggesting many more interviews remain undiscovered. The interviews reveal Warhol's rhetorical strategies: false naivety, monosyllabic answers, role reversals, and deliberate absurdity. Despite his anti-intellectual persona, the compilation exposes a troubling sincerity beneath the irony. Warhol discusses success, money, business, and celebrity with Sixties frivolity, while also revealing traditional values around work, domesticity, and routine. The chronological arrangement gives the book a biographical dimension, tracking his media image from provocative painter to underground filmmaker to socialite. Notable inclusions are a 1980 conversation with William S. Burroughs published in Blueboy magazine. Goldsmith acknowledges that an exhaustive anthology is currently impossible and that future volumes may be needed as more capsules are opened.