A visit to Jack Kerouac’s house ends with the story of Buddha on episode #2 of The Paris Review Podcast.
Listen to archival tape of Maya Angelou interviewed by George Plimpton, the founding editor of the Review in our new podcast!
Last night, PBS’s American Masters series debuted “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” the first-ever feature documentary on the writer.
To celebrate this, listen to the 1988 recording of The Paris Review‘s founder, George Plimpton, interviewing Angelou.
Listen to Djuna Barnes Read from “The Antiphon,” 1971
Clubbing in Lagos with Teju Cole.
Happy Birthday, Czesław Miłosz. Listen to this freshly excavated interview between him and Robert Faggen.
It’s Saul Bellow’s 100th birthday.
(Photo: Saul Bellow backstage at the Poetry Center, 1988. Photo: Nancy Crampton, courtesy of 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center)
It’s John Cheever’s birthday, and courtesy of 92Y, you can listen to a recording of the author reading his most famous story, “The Swimmer.”