Henry Miller
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. Read more»
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.
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. Youre three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate.
Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.