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Slanderous Correspondence; Imitations
I take great and perverse joy in reading insulting, inflammatory, and slanderous correspondence between authors, publishers, and celebrities. Could you recommend some particularly bilious rivalries? As...
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Selected Letters of William S. Burroughs
WSB [Paris] to Laura Lee and Mortimer Burroughs [Palm Beach, Florida] [ca. November 17, 1959] Dear Mother and Dad, I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded—No time to eat as you see in...
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Amie Barrodale Wins Plimpton Prize; Adam Wilson Wins Terry Southern Prize for...
Amie Barrodale. On Tuesday, April 3, The Paris Review will honor two of our favorite young writers. Amie Barrodale will receive the Review’s Plimpton Prize for “Wiliam Wei,” which appeared in our...
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Fuzzy Austen, Tipsy Wilde
The literary felted dolls of My Cozy Classics are, quite simply, delightful. Above, a felted Elizabeth Bennett. Norman Mailer, film director. Exactly how Ladbrokes goes about determining their...
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What We’re Loving: Watkins, Rothbart, Footman
So many of you have written to tell us how much you loved Davy Rothbart’s true story “Human Snowball,” in our current issue. Now you can get a whole book of his adventures. That’s right: his...
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William Styron in Letters
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end,” explained William Styron in his 1954 Art of Fiction interview. “You live several lives while reading it. Its...
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Norman Mailer, Sporting Goatee
Did you know that Norman Mailer once affected a bohemian goatee? Well, he did. [tweetbutton] [facebook_ilike]
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William Styron in Letters, Part 3
William and Rose Styron. To Norman Mailer June 1, 1953 Rome, Italy Dear Norman: I note that you began your last letter: “I’ve been kind of depressed lately,” and by way of preface to this letter I...
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A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! On a brisk December day in 1972, the SS Statendam left...
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The Worst Best Coloring Book Ever
For the literary child—or inner child— in your life! Norman Mailer Joan Didion Gore Vidal Joyce Carol Oates James Baldwin
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Persepolis Ascendant, and Other News
The banning of Persepolis in Chicagoland schools has, in the grand tradition, boosted the graphic novel’s (already robust) sales. “I have only one humble criticism. I wonder if you realize how good...
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Garry Winogrand and the Art of the Opening
Garry Winogrand, El Morocco, New York, 1955, black-and-white photograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel;...
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Authors in Uniform, and Other News
From Twain to Wolfe to Tartt: authors in uniform. Fittingly enough, fisticuffs at the Norman Mailer: A Double Life party. The Asterix reboot, set in ancient Scotland, is being hailed by (a few,...
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What We’re Loving: Self-Help, Self-Hate, Sense and Sensibility
In the last month, thanks to some timely advice from Sam Lipsyte in the Oslo airport, I’ve gone back to two books that I could never get through as a kid: Blood Meridian and Sense and Sensibility....
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Round Two
It was Tuesday and Mike Tyson was comparing himself to Machiavelli. “After you kill the king,” he said, “you cut off his head and you be audacious. You say what you’re going to do to the next king....
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When People Movers Were the Future, and Other News
From the September 10, 1972, edition of Our New Age, drawn by Gene Fawcette. Via Paleofuture A legible—and quite informative—map of the Internet. Would-be circumnavigators may find themselves buffeted...
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River of Fundament
Matthew Barney’s singular new film. Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, River of Fundament: Ren, 2014, Production Still. Photo: Chris Winget. © Matthew Barney. Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, River...
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River of Fundament
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * On the set Matthew Barney’s singular new film....
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It’s Not a Bean, It’s an Oil Bubble, and Other News
Karmay’s suspiciously Kapoor-ish new sculpture.Plenty of adjectives are fit for Norman Mailer—insecure, misogynistic, overrated—but the one people seem to settle on, as a kind of euphemism, is...
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An Indulgence of Authors’ Self-Portraits
Philip Roth“An Indulgence of Authors’ Self-Portraits” appeared in our Fall 1976 issue, the same year Burt Britton’s book Self-Portraits—Book People Picture Themselves was published. Britton’s book...
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