Lorin Stein has been named the new editor of The Paris Review. Click here to read the press release.
4/1 André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun read at NYU.
4/13 The 2010 Spring Revel will honor Philip Roth. Click here for details.
NEW INTERVIEWS BOX SET
Click here to get the four-volume box set of The Paris Review Interviews series.
An interview with Mary Karr: In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.
The animal rose up from where it had been grazing and stepped from behind a thicket of scrub birch and revealed itself to be a moose with
a wide rack of antlers and a droopy nose. I felt relieved, but it was short lived. Moose might look ridiculous, but they can be the most
dangerous things in the forest. When confronted they will stomp you with their hooves and scoop you into the basket of their antlers.