The Paris Review podcast

The Paris Review

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by George Takei, Lena Waithe, and many others. Catch up on earlier seasons, and listen to the trailer for Season 4 now.

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by George Takei, Lena Waithe, and many others. Catch up on earlier seasons, and listen to the trailer for Season 4 now.

 

#41

S4E12 | Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from “Conce... more

20 Mar 2024

17 MINS

17:53

20 Mar 2024


#40

S4E11 | Trial Run

In Zach Williams’s “Trial Run” (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to t... more

13 Mar 2024

37 MINS

37:51

13 Mar 2024


#39

S4E10 | Foley’s Pond

“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher ... more

21 Feb 2024

08 MINS

08:54

21 Feb 2024


#38

S4E9 | The Victim, by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Review’s archive. ... more

14 Feb 2024

30 MINS

30:05

14 Feb 2024


#37

S4E8 | The Walk Book

Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue abou... more

24 Jan 2024

17 MINS

17:40

24 Jan 2024


#36

S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos

Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discoveri... more

17 Jan 2024

18 MINS

18:02

17 Jan 2024


#35

S4E6 | About Ed

“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from [About Ed] (http... more

10 Jan 2024

46 MINS

46:41

10 Jan 2024


#34

S4E5 | Scenes from an Open Marriage

“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Gar... more

20 Dec 2023

36 MINS

36:28

20 Dec 2023


#33

S4E4 | Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait

“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Ha... more

13 Dec 2023

10 MINS

10:58

13 Dec 2023


#32

S4E3 | The I is Made of Paper

Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women w... more

22 Nov 2023

21 MINS

21:23

22 Nov 2023


#31

S4E2 | The Same IKEA Bed

A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own [poem] ... more

15 Nov 2023

10 MINS

10:28

15 Nov 2023


#30

S4E1 | This is Everything There Will Ever Be, by Rivers Solomon

Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “ [This Is Everything... more

15 Nov 2023

34 MINS

34:52

15 Nov 2023


#29

Season 4 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of int... more

01 Nov 2023

02 MINS

02:16

01 Nov 2023


#28

S3E5 | A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Za...

Our Season 3 finale opens with “ [The Trick Is to Pretend] (https://urldefense.com/v3/%20_... more

24 Nov 2021

49 MINS

49:48

24 Nov 2021


#27

S3E4 | Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau...

In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes ramblin... more

17 Nov 2021

44 MINS

44:20

17 Nov 2021


#26

S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)

This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer P... more

10 Nov 2021

49 MINS

49:48

10 Nov 2021


#25

S3E2 | A Gift for Burning (with Monica Youn, Molly McCully Brown, Venita Blackburn, George Saunders)

George Saunders, in an excerpt from his [Art of Fiction interview] (https://urldefense.com... more

03 Nov 2021

34 MINS

34:32

03 Nov 2021


#24

S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)

Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview]( [http... more

27 Oct 2021

46 MINS

46:54

27 Oct 2021


#23

Season 3 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns

The celebrated podcast returns for its third season. Join us on an audio odyssey through t... more

04 Oct 2021

02 MINS

02:30

04 Oct 2021


#22

Celebrating N. Scott Momaday

A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winn... more

23 Apr 2021

10 MINS

10:35

23 Apr 2021


#21

A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)

A special bonus episode, recorded live at [On Air Fest] (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com... more

07 May 2020

31 MINS

31:45

07 May 2020