1990s
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Rita Dove: On the Bus with Rosa Parks
“So what if we were born up a creek and knocked flat with the paddle, if we ain’t...
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92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Arthur Miller with Christopher Bigsby
Posted on March 25, 2016 This conversation between Arthur Miller and Christopher Bigsby, a collaboration between 92Y’s Unterberg...
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75 at 75: Elif Batuman on Haruki Murakami
Posted on Jan 31, 2014
I first discovered Haruki Murakami in 1994, when I was in high school.... -
Seamus Heaney reads from Opened Ground: Selected Poems and other work
Seamus Heaney—making his first Y appearance since winning the Nobel in 1995—reads from Opened Ground: Selected Poems and...
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75 at 75: J. Michael Lennon on Norman Mailer
Posted on Oct 17, 2013
Norman Mailer was 75 in May of 1998 and had just published a... -
92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Norman Mailer with George Plimpton
Posted on March 25, 2016 This conversation between Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, part of a collaboration between...
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92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Peter Matthiessen
Posted on March 24, 2014
It’s broad daylight, good visibility, yet mountains move. You perceive that the so-called... -
92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: William Styron
Posted on December 10, 2013
Not long ago I received in the mail a doctoral thesis entitled “Sophie’s... -
92Y / Paris Review Interview Series: Robert Fagles with Patricia Storace
Posted on June 29, 2015 There are about twenty-seven hundred years that separate the two traditions, and the trick...
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William Trevor: Teresa’s Wedding and The Piano Tuner’s Wives
The Irish master William Trevor reads two of his stories from the 92nd Street Y stage, Teresa’s Wedding...
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James Salter: Burning the Days
Richard Ford has said that “ Salter writes American sentences better than anybody writing today.” Judge for yourself...
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75 at 75: Caryl Phillips on Derek Walcott
Posted on Mar 31, 2014
After the hub-hub of the audience settling down and then a light spattering... -
92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: John le Carré with George Plimpton
Posted on March 25, 2016 This conversation between John le Carré and George Plimpton, part of a collaboration...
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92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Horton Foote with Frank Rich
Posted on April 6, 2015
Of course, New York is a series of small towns, isn’t it. You... -
Cynthia Ozick reads Henry James
In one of her many appearances at the Poetry Center, Cynthia Ozick reads Henry James’s short story “Greville...