The Paris Review
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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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Our Winter issue is here—featuring interviews with Hélène Cixous and Alice Oswald, prose by Eve Babitz and Gwendoline Riley, poetry by Jana Prikryl and Ed Roberson, art by Joan Jonas and Mieko Meguro, a cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/254/
“I’ve absorbed so much poetry over the years, that there are just hundreds and hundreds of lines in my mind. And when one of them floats up out of the mass, I know it’s telling me something.” —Helen Vendler
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January 24, 2026 at 4:02 PM
“I’ve absorbed so much poetry over the years, that there are just hundreds and hundreds of lines in my mind. And when one of them floats up out of the mass, I know it’s telling me something.” —Helen Vendler
“Our interactions with others and the society we live in interests me a lot more than monsters and vampires and ghouls and ghosts.” —Stephen King
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January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
“Our interactions with others and the society we live in interests me a lot more than monsters and vampires and ghouls and ghosts.” —Stephen King
“I have a few vices, but one of them is moderation.” —E. L. Doctorow buff.ly/Zlnp2pN
January 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
“I have a few vices, but one of them is moderation.” —E. L. Doctorow buff.ly/Zlnp2pN
“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.” —Ludmilla Petrushevskaya buff.ly/NsPeICu
Carl Phillips, The Art of Poetry No. 103
“I feel as if I start in a kind of wilderness, and I’m sort of making a way, a crossable path through it. Eventually I can realize where a poem came from—but that’s rarely what the poem is about.”
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January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.” —Ludmilla Petrushevskaya buff.ly/NsPeICu
“Nothing else goes as far into the mastery and beauty of language as one can in French.” —Marie NDiaye
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January 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“Nothing else goes as far into the mastery and beauty of language as one can in French.” —Marie NDiaye
“The history of literature is accounts of consciousness that wouldn’t hold up in a court of law but do hold up on the page and in our hearts and minds.” —Hilton Als
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January 22, 2026 at 11:01 PM
“The history of literature is accounts of consciousness that wouldn’t hold up in a court of law but do hold up on the page and in our hearts and minds.” —Hilton Als
“I don’t think poems have to have easy translation. I believe strongly in emotional and psychological narratives.” —Carl Phillips
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January 22, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“I don’t think poems have to have easy translation. I believe strongly in emotional and psychological narratives.” —Carl Phillips
“I was not interested in creating that rhythm of tension and release in order to arouse. That’s what pornography does.” —Robert Glück
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January 22, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“I was not interested in creating that rhythm of tension and release in order to arouse. That’s what pornography does.” —Robert Glück
“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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January 21, 2026 at 11:01 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
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/kbV6bgI
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/kbV6bgI
“When someone said, This isn’t good, I would say, Well, I actually think it’s brilliant, and the brilliance will be revealed when you’re ready.” —Lynn Nottage
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January 21, 2026 at 8:03 PM
“When someone said, This isn’t good, I would say, Well, I actually think it’s brilliant, and the brilliance will be revealed when you’re ready.” —Lynn Nottage
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The Paris Review mourns the loss of Georges Borchardt. Read our interview with him, published in 2018, here.
The Life and Times of the Literary Agent Georges Borchardt by Michael Meyer
May 23, 2018 – There’s a good chance Georges Borchardt was responsible for shepherding at least one of your favorite writers to publication. After immigrating to
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January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The Paris Review mourns the loss of Georges Borchardt. Read our interview with him, published in 2018, here.
“I remember walking into the museum lobby and seeing that Frank had a big yellow pad and was writing in this gigantic hand a poem called ‘It’s the Blue.’” —James Schuyler
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January 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“I remember walking into the museum lobby and seeing that Frank had a big yellow pad and was writing in this gigantic hand a poem called ‘It’s the Blue.’” —James Schuyler
“Any book that you pick up as a reader is a printed circuit for your own life to flow through.” —E. L. Doctorow
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January 20, 2026 at 11:02 PM
“Any book that you pick up as a reader is a printed circuit for your own life to flow through.” —E. L. Doctorow
“In my writing, I want to display a self that disintegrates. I can prop that up with theory, but something must compel me in the first place.” —Robert Glück buff.ly/hw5gXxh
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“In my writing, I want to display a self that disintegrates. I can prop that up with theory, but something must compel me in the first place.” —Robert Glück buff.ly/hw5gXxh
“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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January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“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
“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave.” —E. B. White
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January 19, 2026 at 11:02 PM
“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave.” —E. B. White
“I think the most I’ve ever written in one go is four pages. I can’t remember the last time that happened.” —Mary Gaitskill
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January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“I think the most I’ve ever written in one go is four pages. I can’t remember the last time that happened.” —Mary Gaitskill
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“I don’t see anger as an emotion to be cultivated and, in any case, it is not in short supply.” —Elizabeth Hardwick
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January 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“I don’t see anger as an emotion to be cultivated and, in any case, it is not in short supply.” —Elizabeth Hardwick
“A crucial verb for writers is revise. Which means, of course, to re-see.” —Allan Gurganus
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January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“A crucial verb for writers is revise. Which means, of course, to re-see.” —Allan Gurganus
“I never know whether something is going to work until the last word of the last line of the last draft.” —Deborah Eisenberg
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January 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“I never know whether something is going to work until the last word of the last line of the last draft.” —Deborah Eisenberg
“Editors used to ring me up and say, You must have something lying around that you can send us? I didn’t say it in these words, but I’d think, If I had something that I thought I could publish somewhere, I’d publish it! Absolutely irritating.” —Gerald Murnane
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January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
“Editors used to ring me up and say, You must have something lying around that you can send us? I didn’t say it in these words, but I’d think, If I had something that I thought I could publish somewhere, I’d publish it! Absolutely irritating.” —Gerald Murnane
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill
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January 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill