November 16, 2017 Events Barney’s Wall: An Evening with Barney Rosset and The Paris Review By The Paris Review On Saturday, November 18, New York University’s Forum on Law, Culture, and Society will host a screening of Barney’s Wall, a seventy-three-minute documentary about Barney Rosset, the provocative and iconoclastic publisher at Grove Press who, in the 1960s, published numerous now-canonical books and helped overturn contemporary censorship laws. Lorin Stein, the editor of The Paris Review, will participate in a conversation after the screening with the film’s director, Sandy Gotham Meehan, writer and editor Alan Kaufman, and New Republic editor Win McCormack. Tickets are available here. In celebration of this event and of Rosset’s legacy, we have unlocked our interview with him for a limited time. Read More
March 6, 2017 Events Tuesday Night: Nazis on Speed By Dan Piepenbring New York: This Tuesday night (March 7) at NeueHouse, I’m talking to Norman Ohler about his new book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, which reveals how drugs pervaded Nazi society from the front lines of the World War II all the way to the Führerbunker. Kirkus calls the book “a vivid, highly readable account of drug use run amok.” Our talk begins at 7 P.M.; entry is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP by e-mailing [email protected] See you there. Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of The Paris Review.
October 26, 2016 Events This Thursday: Yasmine El Rashidi and Robyn Creswell By The Paris Review Photo: Brigitte Lacomb Join us this Thursday, October 27, at the New York Public Library for a conversation between our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, and the Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and an editor of the Middle East arts-and-culture quarterly Bidoun. They’ll discuss her debut novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer, which is narrated by a girl growing up in Cairo over three tumultuous summers from 1984 to 2014. Claire Messud calls it “rich in its quiet implications … An entire nuanced world emanates from these apparently offhand recollections.” The event begins at seven P.M. It’s free, but we recommend reserving seats in advance through the NYPL’s website. See you there!
October 21, 2016 Events This Sunday: Alexander Kluge in Conversation with Ben Lerner By The Paris Review Alexander Kluge. We hope you’ll join us this Sunday, October 23, for a conversation between Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner at Goethe-Institut New York. Kluge is a German writer, theorist, and filmmaker; W. G. Sebald called him “that most enlightened of writers,” and Susan Sontag wrote that “more than a few of Kluge’s many books are essential, brilliant achievements.” He’ll discuss his latest book, The Great Hour of Kong (Kongs große Stunde, Suhrkamp) and share a selection of new writings prompted by Lerner’s poetry. (We have it on good authority that these pieces will appear in a forthcoming issue of a certain literary quarterly, maybe even the one whose website you’re currently reading.) Kluge will also share a short film program and some live piano music, including Jacques Offenbach’s Bataclan and Giuseppe Verdi’s Attila. The event begins at 5:30 Sunday evening. See you there!
October 17, 2016 Events Tonight at McNally Jackson: A Celebration of Henry Green By The Paris Review New Yorkers: tonight at seven, join The Paris Review’s Lorin Stein at McNally Jackson, where he’ll be in conversation with Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Greenberg, and Craig Lucas; they’re discussing the brilliant Henry Green (1905–1973), whose novels Back, Loving, and Caught will be reissued this fall by New York Review Books. Green talked to The Paris Review about Loving back in 1958: I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: “Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.” I saw the book in a flash. Green was a divisive writer in his lifetime. W. H. Auden called him “the best English novelist alive” (NB: he was still alive at the time); The Partisan Review called him “a terrorist of language.” Who was right? The answer to this question and many others, tonight.
September 14, 2016 Events Monday: Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter at 92Y By The Paris Review Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter. Join Terry McDonell, president of The Paris Review’s board of directors, next Monday, September 19, at 92Y, as he discusses his new memoir, The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers, with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter. Tickets are available now. Terry boasts a daunting résumé: he’s worked at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Smart, Outside, and Sports Illustrated. The Accidental Life chronicles his career at some of America’s most influential magazines. “Every time I run into Terry McDonell,” Jeffrey Eugenides writes, “I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he’s known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it’s changed and where it’s going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.” Read an excerpt from The Accidental Life about our founding editor, George Plimpton.