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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953. https://www.theparisreview.org/ https://theparisreview.substack.com/

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 29d

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/

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 39m

“That’s precisely what Warhol did, especially in his films: make an art of “problems,” the internalized world of difference in conflict with itself.”

Hilton Als on Andy Warhol.

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1h

“If you’re interested in the art of life writing, then one of your jobs is to continue to make your life new—to tell your life through the lens of the color blue, or the shadow of a murder in your family, or mouth pain.” —Maggie Nelson

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2h

“I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.” —Umberto Eco
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 18h

“Someone asked me, ‘Who do you write for?’ And I stood on that stage, this incredibly green writer, and said, ‘I write for myself.’ There was total silence.” —Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 19h

“God your poems encouraged me. Courage embedded in the word encourage; your poems gave me courage.”

Spencer Reece on Louise Glück. buff.ly/Mf7QN9d

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 20h

Start your day with a dose of literature and sign up for our poetry newsletter to receive an archival poem to your inbox every morning.
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 23h

“I said: ‘I love you.’ You said: ‘I love you too.’ That was the last of you with me on this earth. The branch shakes still. The hawks on the cross circles.”

Spencer Reece on Louise Glück.

Dear Louise by Spencer Reece

October 14, 2025 – “Louise. September. Evening comes now falling into our houses.”

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“I would feel more at home if I wrote in Chinese, that’s clear. But I’ve been doing it in English for so long I can’t switch. Life’s just too short for that.” —Ha Jin

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“You build a novel. You have to build it like a building so that it stays standing when you’re not in it.” —Rachel Cusk

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“I was in despair—I even thought I might give up writing—so I wanted to force myself to write a little something every day. Of course, it turned out it’s hard for me to write just a little when it comes to blog posts.” —John Keene

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“Perfection is less interesting.” —Anne Carson

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“I know that I can’t get along without writing.” —Jorge Luis Borges

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent my twenties doing more reading, translating, editing, and traveling than writing. I wrote bad poetry.” —Eliot Weinberger

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“You’re always insecure, always thinking the book you’ve just written will be your last …” —Javier Cercas

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“The New York team always loses and is stoic, elegant, dejected. But to the stars through adversity.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “Sportsman’s Paradise” by Nancy Lemann from the archive. buff.ly/VAt9lMJ

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“When my father was alive, I thought I understood the unhappiness my parents caused each other. I too had loved someone to distraction, only to find years later that I could hardly stand him.”

Susan Cheever on her father, John. buff.ly/S53IoK0

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 4d

“Being a big time basketball star and all around hip motherfucker at a private school, I get to meet a lot of out of sight private school chicks, all of them action and plenty rich to boot.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “The Basketball Diaries” by Jim Carroll. buff.ly/sX5cWY7

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 4d

“It took me a long time to realize I was writing a book … I was just writing down things that seemed notable, interesting, annoying as they happened.” —Maggie Nelson buff.ly/LZegvx2

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 4d

“Did living a lie help him create the lie that is the truth of fiction? The best lies, as he well knew, are the ones that sail closest to the truth.”

Susan Cheever on her father. buff.ly/S53IoK0

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 4d

“In New York I learned quite a bit about baseball, as to many a Northerner it is his great love. But what interested me about it was not perhaps the same thing that interested them.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “Sportsman’s Paradise” by Nancy Lemann from the archive. buff.ly/VAt9lMJ

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 4d

“The world needs bizarre and loathsome writing to crop up from time to time, even if readers dislike it, or else authors will cease to exist in this world.”

An essay by Yan Lianke, translated by Jeremy Tiang. buff.ly/xDOtWTX

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

On Sunday, October 12, at Pioneer Works, our poetry editor Srikanth Reddy is joined by contributors Matt Broaddus, Mónica de la Torre, and Jana Prikryl for a conversation about how poems are made. buff.ly/5RntVf7

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

“Even now I have a huge resistance to getting to work, perhaps because my body knows how exhausting and shaming it’s going to be. I don’t want to go through the shame and the exhaustion!” —Deborah Eisenberg

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

“All I wanted was to be published by New Directions—for me that was the temple of literature. So when James Laughlin said he wanted the translation, I achieved my ambition, and after that I could just worry about the work.” —Eliot Weinberger buff.ly/bV9E0Wn

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

“For more than two years I wrote every day, without pause, until I had completed a manuscript of more than three hundred thousand words. Looking at the reams of paper, I interrogated myself.”

An essay by Yan Lianke, translated by Jeremy Tiang. buff.ly/xDOtWTX