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What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/

#HackerNews #CIA #ParisReview #Conversation #LanceRichardson #Mystery

Ah yes, the riveting exposé where the #CIA and The Paris Review are entangled in a yarn so complex, even a spy would yawn 💤. Spoiler alert: it's mostly about subscribing to a literary magazine 📚. As thrilling as watching paint dry, but hey, at least you can donate! 💰
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #ParisReview #LiteraryMagazine #Subscription #Donate #Boredom #HackerNews #ngated

What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/

#HackerNews #What #Happened #with #the #CIA #and #The #Paris #Review? #CIA #ParisReview #LanceRichardson #Journalism #Conspiracy

“To repeat them, to use them over and over again and to keep on speaking of the hranräd, waelräd, or “road of the whale” instead of “the sea”—that kind of thing—and “the seawood,” “the stallion of the sea” instead of “the ship.” So I decided finally to stop using them, the metaphors, that is; but in the meanwhile I had begun studying the language, and I fell in love with it.” #JorgeLuisBorges #ParisReview

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges

“The resonances between life and art continued: a year after Camus’s death, Casares reprised her role as the Princess, the female face of death, in the final installment of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy. In the play, there is a love triangle between the Princess, the poet, and his wife, the pregnant Eurydice. The story is set in a dreamlike postwar Paris.”
#AlbertCamus #loveletters #ParisReview

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/

"Within the story, Jack’s problem, which becomes the reader’s, is that Roy has a theory, and the theory is just *too much.*"

For the Paris Review, I ask whether the demons of David Lynch's Twin Peaks universe were inspired by a 1982 short story by Norman Rush.

https://mailchi.mp/theparisreview/calebcrainnormanrush?e=224caefe41

#shortstory #twinpeaks #normanrush #parisreview

"I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to ­become a historian."

#parisreview #hilarymantel #books #interview
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/the-art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel

The #TrumanCapote interview in our #BowieBookClub pick, “Writers at Work,” is an indulgent romp: “I intend to have footloose escapades as long as the frontiers stay open,” says the boy genius.
He comes across much more likable than #Faulkner does earlier in the collection.
#parisreview #authorinterviews @bookstodon

A fun part of our #BowieBookClub pick this month are these little manuscript peeks for each author interviewed in the Writers at Work collection from the #parisreview
#dorothyparker #authorinterviews @bookstodon

A new short story of mine, "The Letter," is in the latest issue of the Paris Review, which just dropped. It’s about exes, surviving, being an artist and not being an artist, and how impossible it is to tell the difference.

https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7995/the-letter-caleb-crain

#fiction #shortstory #parisreview

"Have you ever smoked a cigarette in a small room...? Cigarette smoke is distilled in the lungs, and upon exhalation, the nicotine adheres to the moisture in the environment, the droplets land, the nicotine is absorbed, and the poison never leaves. The interior of the house had a layer of nicotine varnish that made everything sepia and gross. You cannot scrub this stuff off anything except, maybe, stainless steel." Ottessa Moshfegh, "The Smoker"

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/02/07/the-smoker/?mc_cid=92ad0102cb&mc_eid=26d4e3eb79

#ParisReview #Smoking

Well, I can relate to this because I've been having this trembly feeling for at least eight months:

"Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through." #JoanDidion
#ParisReview

#writing
#WritingCommunity

What I read in July. #andresneuman #anasimo #johnscalzi #parisreview #amreading