Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s Day, and a celebratory Festival Day with more than three hundred authors, plus two hundred and fifty booksellers filling a vibrant outdoor Literary Marketplace. This hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of booklovers of all ages. This year BKBF will feature authors including Jericho Brown, Ilya Kaminsky, Laila Lalami, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, and others.

We’ll be there, too! Come visit us at booth number 323 where you can purchase the new Fall issue, as well as archival issues of The Paris Review and classic magazine merchandise, and meet some Paris Review staff.  See you at the Fest.

Borough Hall and Vicinity

209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, 11201

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PAST EVENT: The Paris Review and Belletrist present Jeffrey Eugenides, in conversation with Emily Nemens at Book Soup about The Virgin Suicides

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. Now this beloved book has reached its twenty-five-year anniversary. 

In this special evening at Book Soup, Jeffrey Eugenides will be in conversation with Emily Nemens, editor of The Paris Review. 

Please visit the Book Soup website for further details.

Book Soup

8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, 90069

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PAST EVENT: A Conversation Around The World: Launching Writers at Work around the World

To celebrate The Paris Review’s latest anthology, Writers at Work around the World, the magazine is saluting its international origins with a conversation in English at the Albertine Bookstore (972 Fifth Avenue). Join us for the launch on Thursday, June 6, at 7:00 P.M. Paris Review editor Emily Nemens will be in conversation with recent contributor Hernan Diaz and Peter Carey, whose 2006 Art of Fiction interview is featured in the anthology. The event is free and open to the public.

Writers at Work around the World is the latest volume published by the magazine’s in-house, limited-edition imprint, Paris Review Editions. Two currents have been central to the magazine since its founding in Paris in the fifties: internationalism, and documenting the thoughts, processes, and concerns of the greatest writers of our time. The book explores fiction from all corners of the globe, beginning with François Mauriac’s interview in 1953 and reaching forward to Dany Laferrière’s in 2017, stopping along the way with Chinua Achebe, Jorge Luis Borges, Ha Jin, Herta Müller, and Elena Ferrante, among others.

Albertine Bookstore

972 Fifth Avenue, New York , 10075

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PAST EVENT: Poetry Rx Live

Dear Poets, Can you suggest a poem to help me start moving forward? Dear Poets, Is there a poem that captures the slow melancholy of a rainy day? Dear Poets, Is there a poem that holds all the hope I hold for the future? Dear Poets, I’m queer, I’m queer, I’m so queer and so closeted. Help.

In our beloved online column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion or problem, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poem to match. On June 8 at 4 P.M., these star poets will take the stage and fix you with poetry, LIVE at the Bell House. 

Buy your tickets from The Bell House and then submit your own question to [email protected] — there's a good chance your question will be chosen the night of the event! (all submissions will be anonymous) 

The Bell House

149 7th Street, Brooklyn, 11215

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