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75 at 75: James Shapiro on Tom Stoppard

Mar 27, 2001

Posted on Apr 18, 2014
When I was sixteen I saw my brother act in a summer-stock production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and was hooked on Stoppard. When I got home I picked up a copy of Hamlet, which wasn’t taught in my high school. Encountering the two plays in that order left... More
75 at 75: Caryl Phillips on Derek Walcott

Nov 18, 1996

Posted on Mar 31, 2014
After the hub-hub of the audience settling down and then a light spattering of applause, we hear Karl Kirchwey’s wonderfully sober and eloquent introduction of the poet. Kirchwey speaks with great precision of “cultural and linguistic fusion” in the work. He rehearses the biographical details—“raised a Methodist on that Catholic... More
75 at 75: Mark Ford on James Schuyler

Nov 20, 1989

Posted on Mar 31, 2014
James Schuyler gave his first-ever public poetry reading on November 15, 1988, when he was 65. Lines snaked around the block outside the Dia Art Foundation, and many that night were turned away. He was introduced by John Ashbery, his long-time friend and his collaborator on the hilarious novel of... More
75 at 75: Megan Marshall on Elizabeth Bishop

May 1, 1974

Posted on Mar 27, 2014
As a student poet at Harvard in the mid 1970s, I heard Elizabeth Bishop read from her own work on two occasions, both in intimate surroundings. The first was a guest appearance in Robert Lowell’s workshop in the spring of 1975. The setting was a drab conference room near the... More
75 at 75: Forrest Gander on Marianne Moore

Oct 30, 1954

Posted on Mar 27, 2014
It is October 30, 1954, three years after the publication of Marianne Moore’s Collected Poems, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the Bollingen Prize. Can you feel the autumn chill trailing into the room with the audience? A bit of fluster in Marianne Moore’s voice? Has... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Peter Matthiessen

Dec 15, 1997

Posted on March 24, 2014
It’s broad daylight, good visibility, yet mountains move. You perceive that the so-called permanence of the mountains is illusory, and that all phenomena are mere wisps of the cosmos, ever changing. It is its very evanescence that makes life beautiful, isn’t that true? If we were doomed to live forever,... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Ryszard Kapuściński

Dec 9, 1991

Posted on March 24, 2014
If we write about human beings, in the most humanly way we are able to, I think everybody will understand us. I find humanity as one family. People really are very much the same in their reactions, in their feelings. I know the whole world. I can’t find much difference... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Paul Theroux

Dec 18, 1989

Posted on March 24, 2014
I came from a very large family, where I always felt lacking in a sense of privacy. I felt hemmed in by my family. I felt as if I had a certain slough in society. I came from, not a small town, but basically not a very interesting place. I... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Jan Morris

Oct 10, 1989

Posted on March 24, 2014
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I believe in its imaginative qualities and its potential as art and literature. I must say that my campaign, which I’ve been waging for ages now, has borne some fruit because intelligent bookshops nowadays do have a stack... More
75 at 75: Siri Hustvedt on Susan Sontag

Nov 2, 1964

Posted on Mar 6, 2014
I didn’t know Susan Sontag well. We were acquaintances who talked at a few dinners in New York over the years. Although her conversational style veered toward pronouncement, which sometimes left her interlocutor (me) in the odd position of searching for a way back to dialogue, I liked her, and... More
Person Place Thing Episode 65: Roddy Doyle

Mar 6, 2014

Like many people, I encountered Roddy Doyle through the Barrytown trilogy – The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van – three terrific novels, and later movies, set in the same fictional working class neighborhood of Dublin, novels that do things with dialogue I hadn’t thought possible. His newest, The Guts, revisits Jimmy Rabbitte – founder... More
Lauren Oliver with Lev Grossman: Panic

Mar 2, 2014

YA author Lauren Oliver talks with Lev Grossman, book reviewer for TIME magazine, about her latest novel, Panic. In this gritty, spellbinding novel, Oliver delivers a gripping narrative of friendship, courage, survival and hope. More