“A richly endowed night-table volume that keeps on giving.” ―The New Yorker
“This astoundingly diverse anthology...is jam-packed with resonant and provocative work from some of our greatest writers, past and present.... The entries in this wonderful book can be read in any order, for the reader will be able to see his or her life reflected on every page.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
For fifty years, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology, with the greatest writers of the last half-century writing on the greatest subjects. It is a unique collection of stories, poetry, thoughts, and observations on the themes of modern life both great and trivial, as well as a compendium of timeless insights into how and why we embark on the processes of creativity and critical thinking.
Like the masterful work of the writers included, the book inspires a dizzying range of thought and emotion, holding a mirror to the world we live in and to the reader's own hopes, dreams, fears and joy.
Lorrie Moore, Raymond Carver and Joseph Brodky on HEARTBREAK
Zelda Fitzgerald and Robert Stone on MADNESS
Vladimir Nabokov and Rick Moody on SEX
David Foster Wallace, Michael Cunningham and Ted Hughes on LOVE
Joanna Scott and Louise Erdrich on BETRAYAL
Jonathan Lethem and Jorge Luis Borges on OUTSIDERS
Italo Calvino and Susan Sontag on WAR
Umberto Eco and Edward Gorey on WHIMSY
Paul Auster and Ian McEwan on HORRORS
Philip Roth and Robert Bly on GOD
Jeffrey Eugenides and Norman Mailer on DEATH
Anthony Burgess and Jim Crace on DINNER
Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin on TRAVELS
Don Delillo and Ernest Hemingway on THE ART OF WRITING
