The Paris Review
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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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· Sep 16
Our Fall issue is here—featuring interviews with Maggie Nelson and Eliot Weinberger, prose by Bud Smith and Yan Lianke, poetry by Patricia Lockwood and Ishion Hutchinson, art by Martha Diamond and Talia Chetrit, a cover by Issy Wood, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/253/
“Is the artist a liar, or simply one for whom even a fact is not a fact?” —Ned Rorem
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November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Is the artist a liar, or simply one for whom even a fact is not a fact?” —Ned Rorem
“She was smiling, but then she reached down and picked up the bowl of fast-food chili. She held the fast-food chili up high in the air and poured it all over my head.”
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books. buff.ly/DY3lZrl
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books. buff.ly/DY3lZrl
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“She was smiling, but then she reached down and picked up the bowl of fast-food chili. She held the fast-food chili up high in the air and poured it all over my head.”
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books. buff.ly/DY3lZrl
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books. buff.ly/DY3lZrl
“So Julia, if you are reading this far into the future, and I am gone, know that I will find you in this other world.”
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books.
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books.
Fights! by Scott McClanahan
November 18, 2025 – “I thought the fight was over, but the fight was never over. The fight had just begun, and so I felt like some dead body on a great battlefield from long ago, and I had learned...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“So Julia, if you are reading this far into the future, and I am gone, know that I will find you in this other world.”
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books.
Excerpted from Scott McClanahan’s FIGHTS!, forthcoming from Rose Books.
“I started to commit the worst of all sins for my sort of writer—I tried to imagine the requirements of the ordinary commercial publisher. A fatal question—what are people reading these days?” —Gerald Murnane
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November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“I started to commit the worst of all sins for my sort of writer—I tried to imagine the requirements of the ordinary commercial publisher. A fatal question—what are people reading these days?” —Gerald Murnane
“When I work more than an hour on one project, I get irritated.” —Donald Hall buff.ly/gU0kg0S
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“When I work more than an hour on one project, I get irritated.” —Donald Hall buff.ly/gU0kg0S
“When it’s good it’s like a dream, I’m just working, and I’m not conscious of myself at all as a writer.” —Paula Fox
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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“When it’s good it’s like a dream, I’m just working, and I’m not conscious of myself at all as a writer.” —Paula Fox
“That was perhaps one of the most important moments of my life, if not the most—to be accepted by people of whose work I was absolutely certain.” —James Schuyler
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November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“That was perhaps one of the most important moments of my life, if not the most—to be accepted by people of whose work I was absolutely certain.” —James Schuyler
“When I sit down to work, I’m just trying to get one little thing right. So I suppose in that regard I do consider it a practice. But I don’t have more far-reaching goals in mind at all. Just, let’s get this little thing right.” —Deborah Eisenberg
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November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“When I sit down to work, I’m just trying to get one little thing right. So I suppose in that regard I do consider it a practice. But I don’t have more far-reaching goals in mind at all. Just, let’s get this little thing right.” —Deborah Eisenberg
“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett
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November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett
“Defects of style betray defects of content. There are always defects. Everybody has things they can say well and things they can’t say. And that, of course, has to do as much with society as with a writer’s individual life choices.” —Fredric Jameson
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November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Defects of style betray defects of content. There are always defects. Everybody has things they can say well and things they can’t say. And that, of course, has to do as much with society as with a writer’s individual life choices.” —Fredric Jameson
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
“The question is, then, What the fuck do we do with our history? Do we try to hide it, like we’ve done so many times?” —Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas, The Art of Fiction No. 264
“Literature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex. It’s useful only so long as one doesn’t set out to make it useful.”
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November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“The question is, then, What the fuck do we do with our history? Do we try to hide it, like we’ve done so many times?” —Javier Cercas
“The question of whether the CIA ever directly funded The Paris Review is an incredibly complicated one.”
@lancerichardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
@lancerichardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“The question of whether the CIA ever directly funded The Paris Review is an incredibly complicated one.”
@lancerichardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
@lancerichardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
“The frame of the novel and of the world is anthropocentric. But if I have to choose between the universe without a frame and mankind with a frame, I would choose mankind.” —László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“The frame of the novel and of the world is anthropocentric. But if I have to choose between the universe without a frame and mankind with a frame, I would choose mankind.” —László Krasznahorkai
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
“What he was actually working on for the CIA is still opaque. Matthiessen described it later as ‘deceiving people’ and ‘serial lying.’ Until the CIA releases its files, it’s always going to be a bit shadowy.”
On The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
On The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“What he was actually working on for the CIA is still opaque. Matthiessen described it later as ‘deceiving people’ and ‘serial lying.’ Until the CIA releases its files, it’s always going to be a bit shadowy.”
On The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
On The Paris Review and the CIA. buff.ly/cvXsT11
“I’m a lousy reporter. If I’m not interested in the person—and sometimes you’re not if you’re just on assignment for a magazine—I’ll think, Well, why aren’t you interviewing me?” —Margo Jefferson
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November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“I’m a lousy reporter. If I’m not interested in the person—and sometimes you’re not if you’re just on assignment for a magazine—I’ll think, Well, why aren’t you interviewing me?” —Margo Jefferson
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 40 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Spring–Summer internship is November 25. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: buff.ly/X8NqMpO
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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“He would take the metro to meet his CIA handler in the Jeu de Paume, and they would stroll from the museum to the gardens near the Louvre and discuss his assignments.”
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on The Paris Review and the CIA.
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on The Paris Review and the CIA.
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“He would take the metro to meet his CIA handler in the Jeu de Paume, and they would stroll from the museum to the gardens near the Louvre and discuss his assignments.”
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on The Paris Review and the CIA.
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on The Paris Review and the CIA.
“I lived in a prison! Nothing was allowed. It didn’t matter what I actually wrote—the people who stood in my way were using ideology as an excuse to advance their own careers. I was banned.” —Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“I lived in a prison! Nothing was allowed. It didn’t matter what I actually wrote—the people who stood in my way were using ideology as an excuse to advance their own careers. I was banned.” —Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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“They sent Matthiessen first to D.C. to meet with James Angleton, a now-famous spymaster.”
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA.
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA.
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
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November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“They sent Matthiessen first to D.C. to meet with James Angleton, a now-famous spymaster.”
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA.
Lance Richardson and Dan Piepenbring on what really happened between The Paris Review and the CIA.