Being alone, free of distraction, can be both a writer’s dream and a nightmare.
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Acting With Agency: The Power and Possibility of Heroic Women
At The Paris Review, Megan Mayhew Bergman looks to history to define what makes an adventurous woman.
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The Feminine Heroic
Megan Mayhew Bergman explores how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: The Siberian Cowboy Poet
“It makes sense that a person would come from another culture and do their poems, because everybody at Elko thinks they’re from another culture.”
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Why Don’t You Just Get One of Those Creative Jobs?
At The Paris Review, writer and creative director Glenn O’Brien narrates the comic struggle of artists who decide to go into advertising.
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‘Pretend I’m Dead’ Author Jen Beagin Wins 2017 Whiting Award for Fiction
“Her anger suddenly dissipated and was replaced again by longing.”
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Pablo Neruda on the Intersection of Politics and Poetry
In 1970, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) sat down for an interview with The Paris Review just months before abandoning his campaign for president, running as the Chilean Communist Party candidate. American author Rita Guibert conducted the interview at Neruda’s home in Isla Negra, just south of Valparaiso: Oh, there is no advice to give to […]
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James Salter on Writing and the Open Road
The author’s 1992 interview with poet Edward Hirsch.
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Elena Ferrante on the Historic Struggle of Women Writers
INTERVIEWER Do you think female fiction is constitutionally weak? FERRANTE Not at all. I’m talking about my adolescent anxieties. For obvious historical reasons, women’s writing has a less dense and varied tradition than male writing, but it has extremely high points and also an extraordinary foundational value—just think of Jane Austen. The twentieth century, besides, […]
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The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.