The Paris Review
An audio odyssey behind the scenes at the world's most legendary literary magazine. A phantasmagoric blend of stories, archival tape, and interviews with the likes of James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, and Dorothy Parker. Plus, the cutting-edge writers of our time.
Preview: Well-Read Black Girl Podcast, with Glory Edim
We’re excited to bring you a special clip from Well-Read Black Girl, hosted by Glory Edim. Well-Read...
ListenPreview: Well-Read Black Girl Podcast, with Glory Edim
We’re excited to bring you a special clip from Well-Read Black Girl, hosted by Glory Edim. Well-Read...
Listen23. A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Zapico, Bud Smith, Jericho Brown, Jessica Hecht, Avery Trufelman)
Our Season 3 finale opens with “The Trick Is to Pretend,” a poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, read...
Listen22. Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau)
In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris...
Listen21. Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)
This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Listen20. A Gift for Burning (with Monica Youn, Molly McCully Brown, Venita Blackburn, George Saunders)
George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job delivering...
Listen19. A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)
Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his Art of Poetry interview; the Italian poet...
ListenSeason 3 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns
The celebrated podcast returns for its third season! Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages of...
ListenBONUS: Celebrating N. Scott Momaday
A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the...
ListenBONUS: Crucial Handshakes (A celebration of issues 233 and 234)
This bonus episode revisits and remixes the virtual launch events for Paris Review issues 233 and...
Listen18. A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)
A special bonus episode, recorded live at On Air Fest on March 8, 2020 (just before social distancing...
Listen17. Odd Planets (with Charlotte Rampling, Simone de Beauvoir, Danez Smith, Griffin Dunne, Henry Green, Sarah Manguso, and WS Merwin)
The final episode of Season 2. The incomparable Charlotte Rampling reenacts Simone de Beauvoir’s classic...
Listen16. Lift and Fall (with Tennessee Williams, Charles Wright, Bill Callahan, J.M. Holmes, Anne Sexton, and Jenny Slate)
Singer/songwriter Bill Callahan reads “Laguna Blues,” a poem by former U.S. poet laureate Charles...
Listen15. Memory, Rich Memory (with Dylan Thomas, Salman Rushdie, Sharon Olds, Alexandra Kleeman, Devendra Banhart, and Paulé Bártón)
Salman Rushdie reads an apologetic letter written by Dylan Thomas to his editor; poet Sharon Olds identifies...
Listen14. Making Light (with Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Brenda Shaughnessy)
Actor Quincy Tyler Bernstine revisits one of the most unsettling scandals of the nineties with her reading...
Listen13. Before the Light (with Toni Morrison, Molly Ringwald, Mary Terrier, Alex Dimitrov)
Legendary novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison explains why beauty is absolutely necessary in an...
ListenSeason 2 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns
The celebrated podcast from the legendary literary magazine returns! Join us for new audio adventures...
ListenTime Has Stood Still: Philip Roth (1933–2018)
Before Philip Roth was an American icon, he published one of his first short stories in The Paris Review...
Listen12. Thunder, They Told Her (with Jamaica Kincaid, James Salter, Dick Cavett, Sadie Stein, Frederick Seidel, Robert Bly, and Caitlin Youngquist)
The final episode of Season 1. Jamaica Kincaid in conversation and reading her short story WHAT I HAVE...
Listen11. Tomorrow's Reason (with Hunter S. Thompson, George Plimpton, Terry McDonell, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Gueudinot, Amie Barrodale, Paul Heesang Miller)
Shotguns, peacocks, golf, acid. Editor Terry McDonell recounts his 1984 visit, along with George Plimpton,...
Listen10. The Occasional Dream (with Frank O'Hara, David Sedaris, Joy Williams, Mary-Louise Parker, Roberto Bolaño, Dakota Johnson, John Ashbery, Steve Gunn, John Jermiah Sullivan, Robert Johnson)
David Sedaris reads Frank O'Hara; Mary-Louis Parker reads Joy Williams; Dakota Johnson reads Roberto...
Listen9. God, Etc. (with Jesse Eisenberg, Benjamin Nugent, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Kristen Dombek)
A frat boy encounters the divine in Benjamin Nugent's story GOD, performed by Jesse Eisenberg; Rowan...
Listen8. Questionable Behavior (with Dorothy Parker, Stockard Channing, Anna Sale, Alexia Arthurs, Helga Davis, Blair Fuller, John Guare, Idra Novey, Elena Wilkinson, Jeff Gleaves)
Stockard Channing and Anna Sale recreate the Review's 1956 interview with Dorothy Parker; writer Idra...
Listen7. The Listening Forest (with Eudora Welty, George Plimpton, Denise Levertov, Ottessa Moshfegh, Glynis Bell)
Denise Levertov's poem SOUND OF THE AXE, read by actor Glynis Bell; Eudora Welty tells George Plimpton...
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