“The reading of great books, the contemplation of great art, is somehow very good for one.” —Iris Murdoch buff.ly/3QjNdJ8

“Off to the races. Fifteen minutes slid by. The first course, a cold soup, came and went.”

Cynthia Zarin for our series, Dinner Parties. buff.ly/3JZN3CU

“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are” —Ray Bradbury buff.ly/3KFbIxh

Our new knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of the Spring 1969 issue of the Review, which features the bold geometries of the artist Jean Dewasne.

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“This particular evening, however, I stood up from my chair and walked around the table to my husband, and I said, in his ear, We have to go now. To his credit, he did not protest.”

Cynthia Zarin for our series, Dinner Parties. buff.ly/3JZN3CU

“I’m so weary of that anti-intellectual stance: I’m just standing here suckin’ on a beer writin’ these lines until the pool room opens.” —Philip Levine
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Lemebel tr by the brilliant Gwen Harper in The Paris Review daily!! theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/0…

“I don’t think a writer can permit himself subterfuges, or tricks, or camouflage, or masks.” —Camilo José Cela
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“There were drinks, and hors d’oeuvres on trays. As usual, I hadn’t had time to eat during the day and ate too many of these too fast. I had also turned my ankle on a cobblestone.”

Cynthia Zarin for our series, Dinner Parties. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/1…

“What there is a problem with is poetry that’s really prose—that comes down the page in these complete sentences, with standardized punctuation, and says something that you’ve already heard before.”

From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley. buff.ly/3uV9Ls0

“All literature is a diary. So indeed is all art and all organized communication, in the sense of its being a reaction to any aspect of the universe.”

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of the Diary interview with Ned Rorem from the archive. buff.ly/3JU10Cb

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Considering literature as an ethics would allow us more possibilities, ethical and otherwise, than those we currently have available.

- Adania Shibli in The Paris Review
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Hey man. Check out this Paris Review interview of diarist Ned Rorem “The Art of the Diary.” Just reading Kafka’s diaries and writing my own, up to vol 23. They mention Anais Nin, who are some others?

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'What are great ideas anyway …'

Ned Rorem's take in an interview in the Paris Review (1999):

Very nice tribute to Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker.
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“If the arts could express each other, we’d only need one art.”

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of the Diary interview with Ned Rorem from the archive. buff.ly/3JU10Cb

“You inhabit another realm when you are writing a novel. It’s like being in love—being ‘in novel.’” —Luisa Valenzuela
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‘Writing has always been like that for me .. slowly blundering toward consciousness.’

Paul Auster
interviewed here for The Paris Review in 2003 by Michael Wood 📚

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“If we’re completely honest, not sentimental or nostalgic, we have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins.” —P. L. Travers
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