Practically Live from the Paris Review’s “Literary Salon” at the Strand, w/ Wallace Shawn & Amy Warren

As I bolted from the lumbering 1 train over to Broadway, nothing could have prepared me for pinot grigio and spiced almonds and cashews as good as what was laid out at Wednesday evening’s event at the Strand’s third floor reading room, set to commemorate the Paris Review’s inaugural Salon event at that venue. These brimming glass bowls and tinkered plastic cups were straight out of Eden: in my rushed panic to arrive on time, this sustenance tasted not merely […]

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Morning Bites: Etgar Keret, Tanlines Guy Archiving, Jazz Age Ladies, Molly Ringwald’s Boots, and More

We’d like to remind you that this Sunday, April 29th, we’re teaming up with Bomb, FSG, and Tumblr to bring you an evening with Etgar Keret who will be in conversation with Lorin Stein of The Paris Review at PowerHouse Arena.  RSVP at Facebook. Cynthia Ozick is interviewed at The Guardian. Rebellious ladies of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. The Millions talk to Lauren Groff. LitKicks on Ed McClanahan’s I Just Hitched in From the Coast. The guy from Tanlines archives old Jewish […]

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Morning Bites: Marc Maron Meets Bret Easton Ellis (On Twitter), Saul Bass For Kids, Abbey Talk, And More

That tweet by Marc Maron to Bret Easton Ellis is a perfect example of why it is perfectly alright to stay on Twitter past midnight.  We are also hopeful that this is Maron’s invite to Ellis to appear on his WTF podcast. Meredith Blake at The Paris Review meets Lady Fiona Herbert, the eighth Countess of Carnarvon, and talks about her book Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey. Rob Horning at The New Inquiry on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. A Wisława Szymborska […]

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Morning Bites: NPR listeners, Stuart Nadler, Paris Review onesie, Jeffrey Lewis in the NYT, and more

NPR listeners are 27% more likely to own a bread maker, and 108% more likely than the average adult to go to live theatre.  More interesting factoids can be found at Jim Romenesko’s blog. If you buy a Paris Review onesie for your child, they will grow up to be smarter. Josh Mohr talks to Bombblog. Jeffrey Lewis is profiled by the New York Times. Jewcy talks to Stuart Nadler about Book of Life. Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams, and others pay […]

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Lit Crawling through NYC

Posted by Jon Reiss Last Saturday’s NYC Lit Crawl began at 6 PM in the East Village and ended at around 9 in the Lower East Side.  The event, which was sponsored by likes of heavy lit-ters such as Granta, Harper Perennial and Craig from Craigslist, offered a smorgasbord of mainly light-hearted often-silly events.  Bomb’s “Bomb-aoke” at Bowery Electric, for instance, promised a karaoke-meets interviews format where crawlers could take the stage, pretending to be one of the many artists […]

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How Many Awards Can Elif Batuman win in one Year?

Not that we’re complaining, but Elif Batuman is really running circles around just about everybody else in the awards department. She recently picked up a Whiting Award, and now via The Paris Review comes more news that makes all of us feel like we’re all slacking way too hard. On Tuesday, April 12, The Paris Review will single out two young writers at its Spring Revel. April Ayers Lawson will receive the Review’s Plimpton Prize for “Virgin,” which appeared in our […]

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What Would George Plimpton Do (WWGPD)?: Lorin Stein’s John Hancock

Posted by Jason Diamond If you’re thrifty and want to support a great literary magazine/institution, forty five bucks will get you a year subscription to The Paris Review, AND editor Lorin Stein will send you a holiday card with a customized message to you. We’d suggest asking him to comment on allegations that he’s a pimp, or getting him to say “Vol. 1 Brooklyn is my favorite blog.”

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