Book Details

The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date. This edition includes: interviews with memoirist Vivian Gornick and Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke; a special section on Karl Ove Knausgaard, which will include, an excerpt from My Struggle volume 4, and an exchange with James Wood (of the New Yorker); fiction by Said Sayrafiezadeh, Sam Savage, and Otessa Moshfegh; aphorisms by Sarah Manguso; a portfolio of architectural photographs by Marc Yankus; and, poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy, Frederick Seidel, Sylvie Baumgartel, Jeff Dolven, and Phillis Levin.