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A new compilation of interviews from the premier literary magazine includes conversations with some of the world's leading authors, poets, novelists, playwrights, and memoirists, including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Gre

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Women at Work is The Paris Review's first collection of interviews in nearly a decade. Introduced by Ottessa Moshfegh, the twelve interviews in Women at Work span the history of The Paris Review, from Dorothy Parker (1956) to Claudia Rankine (2016)¿by way of Isak Dinesen, Simone de Beauvoir, Elizabeth Bishop, Marguerite Yourcenar, Margaret Atwood, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, Jan Morris, Joan Didion, and Hilary Mantel. Intimate, deep, full of surprises, these classic interviews will be a source of inspiration and instruction to writers, students, and anyone else who cares about the creative process, or about the specific challenges faced by creative women.

Interviews from the Paris Review

Women at Work

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In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of The Paris Review, this extraordinary anthology features an array of literary works--fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, and criticism--by some of the premier authors of the twentieth century, including Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Carver, Norman Mailer, and Italo Calvino, among others. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953

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A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages of The Paris Review. Over the course of the last half century, the Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of our time. This anthology---the first of its kind---is more than a treasury: it is an indispensable resource for writers, students, and anyone else who wants to understand fiction from a writer's point of view. "Some chose classics. Some chose stories that were new even to us. Our hope is that this collection will be useful to young writers, and to others interested in literary technique. Most of all, it is intended for readers who are not (or are no longer) in the habit of reading short stories. We hope these object lessons will remind them how varied the form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give."—from the Editors' Note WITH SELECTIONS BY Daniel Alarcón · Donald Barthelme · Ann Beattie · David Bezmozgis · Jorge Luis Borges · Jane Bowles · Ethan Canin · Raymond Carver · Evan S. Connell · Bernard Cooper · Guy Davenport · Lydia Davis · Dave Eggers · Jeffrey Eugenides · Mary Gaitskill · Thomas Glynn · Aleksandar Hemon · Amy Hempel · Mary-Beth Hughes · Denis Johnson · Jonathan Lethem · Sam Lipsyte · Ben Marcus · David Means · Leonard Michaels · Steven Millhauser · Lorrie Moore · Craig Nova · Daniel Orozco · Mary Robison · Norman Rush · James Salter · Mona Simpson · Ali Smith · Wells Tower · Dallas Wiebe · Joy Williams

The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story

Object Lessons

An unusual and ingenious anthology offers a collection of short stories, novellas, poetry, and other concise pieces that are designed to provide the perfect reading material for a commute, ride in an elevator, or short trip, with pieces by such contributors as Mary Robison, Denis Johnson, Michael Chabon, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Pinsky, and other notables. Original. 25,000 first printing.

The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on the Art of Fiction: “Don’t you know my life story by now? I don’t experience fear.”

Margo Jefferson on the Art of Criticism: “I was brought up to move—along with some Negros from Negroland or others who turned out to be just as smart, if not smarter—into Whiteville, to represent the race at its best, as they would say. And, at the same time, to take everything that the white world had to teach us—literary canons, classical music, et cetera—and master it.”

Prose by Amie Barrodale, A. M. Homes, Marie NDiaye, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, and Zheng Zhi.

Poetry by Abigail Dembo, Nora Fulton, Susan Howe, D. A. Powell, Nasser Rabah, Edward Salem, and Nanna Storr-Hansen.

Art by Em Kettner, Agosto Machado, and Lady Shalamar Montague; cover by Anna Weyant.

Spring 2025

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A collection of literary works from the pages of The Paris Review encompasses a study of the lives and fates of a wide variety of ordinary people struggling to cope with an array of problems, from guilt and delusion to passion and jealousy, in works by Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Andre Dubus, Julie Orringer, Norman Rush, and others. Original. 25,000 first printing.

The Paris Review Book of People with Problems

An anthology celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the "Paris Review" offers stories, poems, thoughts, and observations by such authors as W.H. Auden, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Ian McEwan.

Writers at Work Around the World

Women at Work Vol. II is The Paris Review's second volume of interviews with women writers from the past seven decades. Introduced by editor Emily Nemens, the twelve interviews in Women at Work span the history of The Paris Review, from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017) by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Valenzuela, and Louise Erdrich. Intimate, deep, full of surprises, these classic interviews will be a source of inspiration and instruction to writers, students, and anyone else who cares about the creative process, or about the specific challenges faced by creative women.

Intervewis from the Paris Review

Women at Work Vol II

"A dispatch from the front lines of literature." —The Atlantic The Unprofessionals is an energetic collection celebrating the bold writers at the forefront of today’s literary world—featuring stories, essays, and poems from “America’s greatest literary journal” (Time) For more than half a century, the Paris Review has launched some of the most exciting new literary voices, from Philip Roth to David Foster Wallace. But rather than trading on nostalgia, the storied journal continues to search outside the mainstream for the most exciting emerging writers. Harmonizing a timeless literary feel with impeccable modern taste, its pages are vivid proof that the best of today’s writing more than upholds the lofty standards that built the magazine’s reputation. The Unprofessionals collects pieces from the new iteration of the Paris Review by contemporary writers who treat their art not as a profession, but as a calling. Some, like Zadie Smith, Ben Lerner, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, are already major literary presences, while others, like Emma Cline, Benjamin Nugent, and Ottessa Moshfegh, will soon be household names. A master class in contemporary writing across genres, this collection introduces the must-know voices in the modern literary scene.

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