 In memoriam: Shusha Guppy (1935–2008). Guppy was London editor of The Paris Review from 1984 to 2004; she conducted eighteen interviews for the magazine, including Art of Fiction interviews with Anita Brookner, Rosamond Lehmann, Edna O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Yourcenar and Art of Theater interviews with Eugéne Ionesco and Tom Stoppard. Click here to read more about Guppy's life.
Read about Benjamin Percy and Victoria Chang, who have been named “Up and Comers” by the literary blog Luna Park. Percy received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review for his story “Refresh, Refresh.” His most recent story, “Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This,” appeared in issue 180, alongside Victoria Chang's poem “How Much.”
Watch video from the April 29, 2007, celebration of the life of Ryszard Kapuscinski at the New York Public Library, sponsored by The Paris Review as part of the PEN World Voices festival. Click here to listen to a letter from Werner Herzog and here to see Salman Rushdie's tribute to Kapuscinski.
Congratulations to Charles Simic, poetry editor of The Paris Review, who has been named the fifteenth poet laureate of the United States. Simic takes over for Donald Hall, The Paris Review's first poetry editor (1953–1961), who served as poet laureate from 2006 to 2007.
Simic has also been selected as the recipient of the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Click here to read his 2005 Art of Poetry interview.
Listen to readings of two stories from The Paris Review, Miranda July's story “Birthmark” from the Spring 2003 issue and Lisa Halliday's story “Stump Louie” from the Summer 2005 issue, on Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage program.
Listen to Benjamin Percy's story
“Refresh, Refresh” on WNYC's Selected Shorts. A short interview with Percy follows the interview.
Read an article about the The Paris Review from The Washington Post.
Listen to Christopher Stewart speak about “Assassin,” his encounter with a Serbian terrorist published in the Summer 2006 issue, on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Watch a panel discussion about magazines with The New Republic editor Franklin Foer, Harper's editor Roger Hodge, and The Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch from the June 6th Charlie Rose Show.
RECENT PARIS REVIEW AWARD WINNERS
Dan Chiasson, whose poems appeared in the Fall 2002 and Summer 2005 issues, has been given a 2008 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Danielle Evans's story “Virgins” from issue 182 will be included in Best American Short Stories 2008.
Miranda July has won the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You, which features two stories originally published in The Paris Review: “Birthmark” and “Making Love in 2003.”
Dean Young has been given an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Read one of Young's poems from issue 179.
T. C. Boyle's story “Balto” from issue 179 will be included in Best American Short Stories 2007. Boyle also won the 2007 Evil Companions Literary Award.
Yiyun Li has been awarded the 2006 Guardian First Book Award for her short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Two of the stories from the book, “Immortality” and “Persimmons” were originally published in The Paris Review.
Peter Orner has been awarded the Bard Fiction Prize for his novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, which first appeared as “Story of a Teacher's Wife” in issue 166.
Will Steacy has been named one of the “25 Under 25 Up-And-Coming American Photographers” by The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his work in New Orleans, which was featured in issue 177.
Benjamin Percy's story “Refresh, Refresh” from issue 175 has won a 2007 Pushcart Prize and was included in Best American Short Stories 2006.
Jesse Ball's poem “Speech in a Chamber” from issue 174 was included in Best American Poetry 2006.
Ben Fountain's story “The Lion’s Mouth” from issue 173 has won a 2007 Pushcart Prize.
James Lasdun's story “An Anxious Man” from issue 173 has won the 2006 National Short Story Prize.
Jack Livings's story “The Dog” from issue 173 was included in Best American Short Stories 2006.
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