“Writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.”

“The reason I put out-of-the-ordinary names on characters is because the John Smiths of the literary world make me sick.”

In his new book Mentor, Tom Grimes explores his friendship with Frank Conroy, who was the director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for almost twenty years, offering the reader an unvarnished account of the vagaries of MFA programs, the fickleness of …

After the jump, a recap of Tuesday night's softball game against The New Yorker.


Team |1|2|3|4|5|6| Total
 TPR |3|1|1|2|0|1| 8 
TNY |2|0|1|0|0|0| 3
Pregame: It's a tense start to the annual Paris Review v. New Yorker softb…

After the jump, a recap of our last two softball games, against High Times and The Nation.

TPR v. HIGH TIMES
Team |1|2|3|4|5|6|7| Total
 TPR |1|0|0|1|0|2|0| 4 
HT |5|3|2|3|3|2|x| 18 Much has been made of the High Times phenomen…

Add James Salter's Dusk to the list of genius reissues coming out this year. Modern Library has put out a handsome new edition of the story collection, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award when it first appeared in 1988. (If songs from 1988 can be call…

Barbara Demick wrote an excellent book about North Korea, Nothing To Envy, that has just won the BBC's Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. Demick interviewed dozens of defectors from the North during the years she spent living in Seoul, and the book…

Jennifer Egan's new book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, covers a lot of ground, from San Francisco to Kenya and beyond, and a wide span of time, from the seventies punk scene to a near future where even the most intimate conversations ("Nvr met my dad…

After the jump, a recap of last night's softball game against Esquire. Team  |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|  Total
ESQ   |0|1|1|0|0|0|0|  2
TPR   |5|3|0|0|3|0|x|  11
There are moments in the history of every truly great sports team in which the din and …

After the jump, a recap of last night's softball game against n+1.The Partisans at n+1 took Team Paris Review into extra innings for the first time in the magazine's history last night, and the results were not pretty. Our team is an efficient piece …

Congratulations to Wells Tower, whose short-story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award last night. Tower’s first two published stories were picked from the slush pile by The Pari…

After the jump, a recap of Tuesday night's softball game against Harper's Magazine.WP: Kanon (2-0)
SV: Hiltner (1)

For the past several seasons, the scruffy band of all-stars from The Paris Review has been a team without a home. Tuesday night's g…

After the jump, a recap of last night’s softball game against Vanity Fair.The Paris Review softball juggernaut marches on. The Vanity Fair team, who call themselves—no joke—the Veefers, put up a strong fight, but could find barely a chink in our …