The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays,
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from “Concerning the
In Zach Williams’s “Trial Run” (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to two coworke
“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher reads Pete
The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Review’s archive. Published
Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014
The Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering fem
“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed, a memoir about h
“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads
“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women w
A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem (Issue no. 2
Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will
The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, f
Our Season 3 finale opens with “The Trick Is to Pretend,” a poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, read by
In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around P
This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winni
George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job deliv
Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview](https://urldefen
The celebrated podcast returns for its third season. Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages o
A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the
