The Paris Review: Vol 210 (Autumn)
Edited by Lorin Stein
Available as Paperback
The latest edition of the seminal literary magazine
The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing.
Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein’s canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date.
This edition includes: the fourth and last instalment of Rachel Cusk’s fiction, interviews with comics creator Chris Ware and Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, an essay by David Searcy and letters from the late fifties between George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and Alexander Trocchi.
Full contents: Fiction by David Gates, Rachel Cusk, Atticus Lish, Alejandro Zambra - Interviews with Aharon Appelfeld, Herta Muller, Chirs Ware - Poetry by Karen Solie, Stephen Dunn, Maureen N. Mclane, Devin Johnston, Ben Lerner, Frederick Seidel, Linda Pastan, Brenda Shaughnessy - Nonfiction by David Searcy - Document: letters between George Plimpton and Terry Southern
“One of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful”
Margaret Atwood
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Edited by Lorin Stein
The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, T.C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann and many other writers who have given us great literature of the past half century. Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review in 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003. Lorin Stein is the current editor.