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.
On an unusual day during my childhood, my mother showed up at school and asked me questions about myself. I was twelve or so then,
and generally I found my own way home: bus, walk, bike, hitchhike. I hardly recognized her car, waiting there by the flagpole with
all the other mothercars until she honked and beckoned me inside.