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The Paris Review Interviews David Mitchell
The Paris Review interviews David Mitchell in their new issue. An excerpt from their free excerpt: INTERVIEWER I noticed this sentence in Number9Dream: “The cloud atlas turns its pages over.” MITCHELL...
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The Paris Review Interviews Jonathan Lethem
Spanish-language blog La fortaleza de la soledad has republished The Paris Review’s interview with Jonathan Lethem. Cool interview–Lethem talks about his hippie parents, going to school with Bret...
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“Between Scotch and nothing, I’ll take Scotch”— William Faulkner on the Ideal...
The Paris Review’s 1956 interview with William Faulkner is amazing. An excerpt– INTERVIEWER: Then what would be the best environment for a writer? FAULKNER: Art is not concerned with environment...
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The Paris Review Will Publish Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich; Read an...
Beginning with its next issue, The Paris Review will serialize Roberto Bolaño’s “lost manuscript,” The Third Reich. The Wall Street Journal’ Speakeasy blog has a (very short) excerpt. An excerpt of...
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“I don’t ask for joy. I don’t feel joy”— The Paris Review Interviews...
From The Paris Review’s interview with Louis-Ferdinand Céline– INTERVIEWER If you could have it all over again, would you pick your joys outside literature? CÉLINE Oh, absolutely! I don’t ask for joy....
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Barry Hannah Addresses the Whole “Pointing a Gun at a Student” Rumor
From The Paris Review’s interview with Barry Hannah— INTERVIEWER But about the guns. When you left Alabama, there was an incident . . . HANNAH Yes, I was a tenured professor there, and I was fired. I...
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Book Acquired, 9.22.2011
Hey! Sex! Nicholson Baker, Dennis Cooper! Lydia Davis, Geoff Dyer (maybe not so sex). You can read the cover. Bolaño didn’t make the cover this time, and the third installment of The Third Reich is...
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Friday Reading, 10.14.2011
Barry Hannah, The Paris Review, homebrewed ale. Tagged: Barry Hannah, homebrewed ale, The Paris Review
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William Gaddis on Hipsters: “An Ill-dressed, Underfed, Overdrunken Group of...
Love this passage from William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Mocking “hipsterism” has been around forever (or at least 50 years): And by now they were at the door of the Viareggio, a small Italian bar of...
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Object Lessons from The Paris Review, Where Writers Present Some of Their...
Okay: This one is really cool: Object Lessons features a bunch of short stories, some you may have read, each with a short lead-in (two-five pages) by another writer. So, we get Jeffrey Eugenides on...
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Stanley Elkin reviews Stanley Elkin’s novel The Dick Gibson Show (kinda sorta)
[Ed. note: I finished Stanley Elkin’s 1971 novel The Dick Gibson Show a few days ago. I read The Dick Gibson Show immediately after finishing Elkin’s 1976 novel The Franchiser. I want to write...
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A review of The Paris Review’s overproduced podcast
In his introduction to the first episode of The Paris Review Podcast, former editor Lorin Stein tells us that we’re going to hear some great writing. He then claims, “what you won’t hear is much in...
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