Bolaño’s Heresy: On Distant Star by Ben Lerner March 11, 2026 – “Maybe this is my own dream or projection, but when I read Bolaño’s flat, minimal descriptions of nonexistent verse, the prose begins to vibrate.”

Ben Lerner, “Bolaño’s Heresy: On Distant Star”
(“From the introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, out from Picador in April.”)　#TheParisReview March 11, 2026
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#Television
By #AnneStevenson

Hug me, mother of noise.
Find me a hiding place.
I am afraid of my voice.
I do not like my face.

Via #TheParisReview
#poem #poetry #media #TV

#nowreading #theparisreview

The Paris Review Interviews, Ralph Ellison
"ELLISON: [...] no reconec cap dicotomia entre art i protesta."#ElPlaerDeLlegir #Llegir #Literatura #OrientacióLiterària #RecomanacionsLiteràries #QuèLlegir #magradallegir #RalphElliot #theparisreview

📌La entrevista de #TheParisReview a #GeraldMurnane. ⤵️

Maggie Nelson, The Art of Nonfiction No. 13 “Any time someone has suggested that the kind of book I was describing couldn’t or shouldn’t be pulled off, it’s made me think, I’ll show you.”

#Writing #NonFiction #Essays #MaggieNelson #Journalism #Ideas #TheParisReview

Erasure Notebooks by Mary Ruefle August 12, 2025 – "These erasure texts range from slapstick to the absurd, from the lyrical to a wry melancholy."

I adore these notebooks 🫶
#theparisreview
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

In JR Salamanca's book 'Lilith' (1961), the main character didn't appear in the first sixty or eighty pages. His editor, Robert Gottlieb, suggested that Salamanca change the original title to ‘Lilith’, because even if she hadn’t yet appeared, the reader would be expecting her. #TheParisReview #edit

And you might even want to subscribe! #TheParisReview

Summer is Made of the Memory of Summer by Nina MacLaughlin June 21, 2019 – Tonight, the light lasts and lasts. The solstice is a special day, irregular, when doors swing open that are otherwise closed. There are extra layers of possibility afoot. Open yoursel...

Nina MacLaughlin, Summer is Made of the Memory of Summer
#TheParisReview #SummerSolstice
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New #books!

#Biographies of #BrianFriel & #JMWTurner.

#TheParisReview: #PlaywrightsAtWork... interviews with #EdwardAlbee #SamuelBeckett etc.

#TechnoFeudalism (#WhatKilledCapitalism) by #YanisVaroufakis.

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” #FrederickDouglass

Celebrating Peter Matthiessen’s birthday and feeling very invigorated, I #amwriting #scifi with no idea of what’s coming up next.

💙📚
More: Peter Matthiessen, award-winning American writer, naturalist, and co-founder of #TheParisReview -
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/9...

#writers #quotes

I wish #TheParisReview would bring back Poetry Rx! Readers write in and the agony aunts prescribe poems. This helped me through the pandemic. Its fantastic! #poetry #TheParisReview www.theparisreview.org/blog/columns...

Stuff and things, part 2. #velvetunderground #theparisreview #albertayler #jimcarroll #basketballdiaries #maddoxbrothersandsisterrose #flanneryoconnor

Hot Pants at the Sodomy Disco - The Paris Review “The same Miss Perverse who’s back again, more alive than ever, laughing luciferously with a drink in hand.”

"On the edge of the Alameda, practically bumping up against the old Church of Saint Francis, the gay club flashes a fuchsia neon sign that sparks the sinful festivities."
Hot Pants at the Sodomy Disco
By Pedro Lemebel
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05...
Via #TheParisReview

Syllabus: Diaries - The Paris Review “That mode, which involves carving out a space in which no one is watching or listening, is how I’ve always operated.”

Love that #TheParisReview requested Jhumpa Lahiri share her syllabus for this course on #diaries so that those who cannot afford that kind of education can delight in the idea of reading along with at least some of the #books selected.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03...
#write #create #read

The Disenchantment of the World - The Paris Review “An unbounded world lacks enchantment and magic. Enchantment depends on boundaries, transitions, and thresholds.”

The Disenchantment of the World
By Byung-Chul Han Trans. Daniel Steuer
Via #theparisreview #books #writing
"Causality is a mechanical and external relation. Magical and poetic relationships to the world rest on a deep sympathy that connects humans and things."
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03...

Backyard Bird Diary - The Paris Review “I imagined tiny avian helicopters dining on my palm.”

What a joy to peek inside Amy Tan's Backyard Bird Chronicles via #TheParisReview www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03...
#journals #birds #hummingbirds
#writing #creativity #nature