Paris Review 212 (Spring 2015)
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-78211-481-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
* One of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful -- MARGARET ATWOODMore details
Person
The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, T.C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann and many other writers who have given us great literature of the past half century. Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review in 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003. Lorin Stein is the current editor.