“Walking and driving a car are part of my life as a writer, really. I can’t imagine myself apart from these activities.” —Joyce Carol Oates
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'Shortly after Phil died, I scoured the library shelves for every periodical that even mentioned him. Early in my twenties, I’d begun saving every magazine or newspaper article Phil was ever featured in.' Philip Seymour Hoffman's sister, Emily Barr, reflects on li

New Nonfiction podcast episode up with Tony Tulathimutte on his The Paris Review essay “The Rejection Plot' ! We talk about experiential properties of rejection, plotlessness, the delamination of an infatuation narrative from real life, entitativity, and Miss Havisham open.spotify.com/episode/14OQNM…

'I once said that I thought that the two most painful things two human beings can do together are a double-ax murder or an artistic collaboration.' Sophie Haigney interviews composer John Adams for our Art of the Libretto series.

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“They are peace-loving
each has its own home in the hive
they are like people, and easily take offense
their patience is not equal to that of men
they cannot be sold”

From “The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees” by Eliot Weinberger. buff.ly/48KFZE4

“Anonymous pleasure hurts nobody.”

In celebration of Vladimir Nabokov, who was born on April 22, 1899, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from the archive. buff.ly/3TA6Xc4

“You speak from inside the poem as someone looking to see how the roof articulates with the walls. And where are the crossbeams that hold it up, and where are the windows that let light through?” —Helen Vendler

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“To leave everyone screaming at the end is not my idea of a novel, really.” —Jane Gardam buff.ly/3uVnVZv

Virtuoso….R.I.P.

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“Poems help me to know what I’m feeling. Out of the depths of my heart will come a quotation completely unbidden. And then I will think, Oh, so that’s what I am feeling today.” —Helen Vendler

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'INTERVIEWER

Do you write for a particular audience?

VENDLER

No, I write to explain things to myself.'

A brilliant critic and an enormous loss. The Paris Review has unlocked Vendler’s Art of Criticism to mark her passing 👇

I saw Helen Vendler lecture on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn when I was an undergrad in *cough cough*. It was exhilarating. Have never forgotten it. Rest in Poetry.

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“One thing I have complete control over—my writing. The other thing I have no control over—my career. Writers often get confused about the two and tend to treat the one as if it were the other.” —Russell Banks
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“You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. You stand behind the words and speak them as your own.” —Helen Vendler

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“I think the poet who didn’t feel the pressure at a politically difficult time would be either stupid or insensitive.” —Seamus Heaney
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“Miss Marie walked out with her hands behind her back and talked about how hard we’d been working, which was a lie because I had only wrote the play in one class period.”

“Social Promotion” by Elijah Bailey in our Spring issue. buff.ly/49PCE80