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The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from âConcerning the Future of Soulsâ (issue no. 247, Spring 2024), a collection of stories following Azrael, the angel of death and transporter of souls.
This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8252/concerning-the-future-of-souls-joy-williams
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In Zach Williamsâs âTrial Runâ (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to two coworkersâ conspiracy theories when their office is targeted by an anonymous white supremacist hacker. The story is read by Michael Chernus, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Gabriel Marin.
This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7873/trial-run-zach-williams
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âWe were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.â Jim Fletcher reads Peter Ornerâs âFoleyâs Pondâ (issue no. 202, Fall 2012), a quietly devastating short story about the effects of a tragic accident on a boy and his community.
This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6173/foleys-pond-peter-orner
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The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Reviewâs archive. Published by the magazine in 1957, âThe Victimâ is Ivan Morrisâs English translation of the Japanese author Jun'ichirĆ Tanizakiâs 1910 literary debut.
This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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theparisreview.org/fiction/4872/the-victim-junichiro-tanizaki
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The Japanese American Museum: https://www.janm.org/
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Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from âThe Walk Bookââhis meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United Statesâincluding some rain-soaked field recordings.
This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
Additional Links:theparisreview.org/letters-essays/8039/the-walk-book-sean-thor-conroe
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The Nobel Prizeâwinning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of KrajanĂłw where she was once neighbors with âthree different translators of William Blake in an excerpt from her Art of Fiction interview with Marta Figlerowicz.
This episode was produced and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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theparisreview.org/interviews/7968/the-art-of-fiction-no-258-olga-tokarczuk
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âWe needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.â Robert GlĂŒck reads from About Ed, a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai. The performance is paired with excerpts from his Art of Fiction interview with Lucy Ives.
This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was mixed and sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
Additional Links:
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8016/the-art-of-fiction-no-260-robert-gluck
https://theparisreview.org/miscellaneous/7896/about-ed-robert-gluck
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âNothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.â Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads her essay âScenes from an Open Marriageâ and chats with the Reviewâs deputy editor, Lidija Haas, and senior producer of the podcast, Helena de Groot.
This episode was produced, sound-designed, and mixed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
Additional Links:
theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/29/scenes-from-an-open-marriage/
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âThe only colors weâre going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.â Terrance Hayes reads his poem, âBob Ross Paints Your Portrait.â An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: âdeep-space black, black-hole black ⊠lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.â
This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore. It was sound-designed, mixed, and features original scoring by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.Additional Links:
theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457422/so-to-speak-by-hayes-terrance
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The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write,â in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: âSisters of Sexual Treasureâ (issue no. 74, FallâWinter 1978), âTrue Love,â and âThe Easel.â
This episode was produced and sound-designed by John DeLore. The audio recording of âSisters of Sexual Treasureâ is courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.Additional Links:
theparisreview.org/interviews/8000/the-art-of-poetry-no-114-sharon-olds
theparisreview.org/poetry/3462/the-sisters-of-sexual-treasure-sharon-olds
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A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem (Issue no. 239, Spring 2022), as well as two more from the archive: Toi Dericotteâs âBirdâ (Issue No. 124, Fall 1992) and Rainer Maria Rilkeâs âDeathâ (Issue No. 82, Winter 1981). This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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theparisreview.org/poetry/7855/from-couplets-maggie-millner
theparisreview.org/poetry/6855/death-rainer-maria-rilke
theparisreview.org/poetry/2039/two-poems-toi-derricotte
maggiemillner.com/
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Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomonâs âThis Is Everything There Will Ever Be,â which was published in issue no. 243 of the Review. The story, dark and uplifting by turns, is a portrait of âjust another late-forties dyke entirely too into basketball, dogs, and memes.â This episode was produced and sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is âShadow,â composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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theparisreview.org/fiction/7963/this-is-everything-there-will-ever-be-rivers-solomon
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The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from Americaâs most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Catch up now on earlier seasons & then tune in November 15th for the fourth season.
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Our Season 3 finale opens with âThe Trick Is to Pretend,â a poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, read by the singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers: âI climb knowing the only way down / is by falling.â The actor Jessica Hecht plays Joan Didion in a reenactment of her classic Art of Fiction interview with Linda Kuehl. Jericho Brown reads his poem âHeroâ: âmy brothers and I grew up fighting / Over our motherâs mind.â The actor, comedian, and podcaster Connor Ratliff reads Bud Smithâs âViolets,â the story of two unlikely arsonists rediscovering life in the flames. The episode closes with Bridgers performing âGarden Song.â
To hear more from Connor Ratliff, check out his podcast Dead Eyes. To hear Avery Trufelmanâs latest show, find the podcast Nice Try!
âHeroâ by Jericho Brown appears courtesy of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
This episode was sound designed and mixed by Hannis Brown, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.
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In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. In an excerpt from The Art of Fiction no. 246, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk discover her âshape or identity or essence.â Next, Allan Gurganusâs reading of his story âIt Had Wings,â about an arthritic woman who finds a fallen angel in her backyard, is interspersed with a version of the story rendered as a one-woman opera by the composer Bruce Saylor. The episode closes with âDear Someone,â a poem by Deborah Landau.
To check out Captioning the Archives, the book Aisha Sabatini Sloan created with her father, Lester Sloan, visit McSweeneyâs.
This episode was sound designed and mixed by John DeLore, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.
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This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Known World and All Aunt Hagarâs Children, and subject of the Art of Fiction no. 222. The episode opens with an excerpt from that interview, a conversation between Jones and Hilton Als. Then actor Amber Gray (Hadestown) reads Jonesâs story âMarieâ from issue no. 122.
This episode was sound designed and mixed by Helena de Groot, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.
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George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job delivering fast food prepared him to write fiction; Monica Youn reads her poem âGoldacre,â which tells the truth about Twinkies; Molly McCully Brown reads her essay âIf You Are Permanently Lost,â in which she confesses that âspace makes no senseâ; and Venita Blackburn reads âFam,â a very short story about self-love and social media.
This episode was sound designed and mixed by Helena de Groot, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.
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Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4678/the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-frost ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9hZ3SP6-g%24); the Italian poet Antonella Anedda discusses her poem â[Historiae 2](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://theparisreview.org/poetry/7487/historiae-2-antonella-anedda ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9j2rn0NSQ%24)â with her translator Susan Stewart before the American vocal ensemble Tenores de AterĂșe re-imagines the poem as a song in the folk tradition of Aneddaâs native Sardinia; and Yohanca Delgado reads her story â[The Little Widow from the Capital](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://theparisreview.org/fiction/7644/the-little-widow-from-the-capital-yohanca-delgado ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9iWagiT-A%24),â a tale of mystery, heartbreak, and embroidery set in a New York apartment building.
Robert Frostâs December 16, 1959, interview with Richard Poirier appears courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University's Houghton Library. PS3511.R94 Z467 1959x. [HOLLIS Permalink: 990023780790203941](https://urldefense.com/v3/ http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990023780790203941/catalog ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9jnvzRIow%24).
To learn more about Tenores de AterĂșe, check out their documentary feature at [www.aterue.com\](https://urldefense.com/v3/ http://www.aterue.com ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9j0o67FmA%24). Visit [Bandcamp](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://tenoresdeaterue.bandcamp.com/ ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9hoyiL-Pg%24) to hear more of their music.
This episode was sound designed and mixed by John DeLore, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.
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The celebrated podcast returns for its third season. Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages of The Paris Review, featuring the best fiction, poetry, interviews, and archival recordings, from the world's most legendary literary quarterly.
This season features fiction by Yohanca Delgado, Venita Blackburn, Bud Smith, Allan Gurganus, and Edward P Jones. Poetry from Monica Youn, Deborah Landau, Jericho Brown, Antonella Anedda, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Plus excerpts of interviews with Joan Didion, Robert Frost, Rachel Cusk, and George Saunders. This season includes the voices of Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Jessica Hecht, and Amber Gray.
Check out this trailer for a preview of the upcoming season, and subscribe now to hear the first episode on October 27th, 2021.
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A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the Reviewâs 2021 Hadada Award, which recognizes a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature. What you are about to hear is an exclusive excerpt of the first step in the process of conducting Momadayâs Writers at Work interview, a bit of the very first call between Momaday and his interviewer, the poet Layli Long Soldier. They discuss the importance of oral tradition to literature, especially to the Native American tradition.
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