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 6:30 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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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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Writers at Work Live: John Keene in conversation with Jeffery Renard Allen at Chautauqua

For the first time, The Paris Review is live at Chautauqua Institution! This in-depth interview of John Keene by writer-in-residence Jeffery Renard Allen will offer attendees a glimpse into the insights, influences and practices of author and MacArthur Genius Keene. This special program is co-sponsored by the African-American Heritage House.

Since 1953, The Paris Review’s Writers at Work interview series has made the wisdom of literary masters from Toni Morrison to Stephen King available to its readers—and sometimes lucky live attendees. This conversation, introduced by Paris Review editor Emily Nemens, will be the groundwork for a new interview in the series.

John Keene is the author of the story collection Counternarratives and the novel Annotations, as well as a former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and the recipient of many awards and fellowships―including a MacArthur Genius Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. Keene teaches at Rutgers. He will also deliver the Thursday, July 27 CLSC presentation on Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.

Jeffery Renard Allen is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia and the author of five books, including two award-winning novels, Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank. His short-story collection, Holding Pattern, won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He will also lead a Writers' Center prose workshop, "Distortion, the Other Magical Realism," during his Week One residency at Chautauqua.

Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in 2018. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is forthcoming from FSG.

This event requires a gate pass. For more information please visit the Chautauqua Institute website. 

Hall of Philosophy

Haven Avenue, Chautauqua, NY, 14722

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