The Paris Review
By 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.
Latest episode
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S4E12 | Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams
Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams -
S4E11 | Trial Run
Zach Williams short story "Trial Run" is read by actors Michael Chernus, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Gabriel Marin. -
S4E10 | Foley’s Pond
Peter Orner's gripping short story, “Foley's Pond,” read by actor Jim Fletcher. -
S4E9 | The Victim, by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
George Takei delivers a stunning read of this 1910 story from legendary Japanese author, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. -
S4E8 | The Walk Book
Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United States. -
S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos
Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, interviewed in her home in the village of Krajanów. -
S4E6 | About Ed
Robert Glück reading from his memoir, "About Ed," and in conversation with Lucy Ives. -
S4E5 | Scenes from an Open Marriage
Scenes from an Open Marriage, read by Jean Garnett -
S4E4 | Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait
Terrance Hayes reads his poem, "Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait." -
S403 | The I is Made of Paper
Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write, and reads three of her poems.
