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11/9 Orhan Pamuk at the 92nd Street Y.

11/30 Paul Auster and Javier Marías will read at the 92nd Street Y.

12/17 Colum McCann and Timothy Donnelly at NYU.

The 2010 Spring Revel will honor Philip Roth. Click here for details.

Last years's Revel honored John Ashbery. Click here to read a selection of Ashbery's poems published in The Paris Review.

New books from The Paris Review.

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NEW FALL ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW

James Ellroy on his novels: “If you’re confused about something in one of my books, you’ve just got to realize, Ellroy’s a master, and if I’m not following it, it’s my problem.”

Frederick Seidel on the Art of Poetry.

New stories by Sam Shepard, Richard Powers, and Mark Slouka.

A dispatch from North Korea from Barbara Demick.

Plus poems from Elizabeth Arnold and Timothy Donnelly, newly translated work by Rilke, and more.

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DAYLIGHT NOIR

     “We go west,” she said, “through the Beverly Hills and then father on.”
     I let the clutch in and drifted around the corner to go south to Sunset. Dolores got one of her long brown cigarettes out.
     “Did you bring a gun?” she asked.

Click here to see Catherine Corman’s photographs of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, with captions by Chandler and an essay by Jonathan Lethem.

2009 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

Click the links below to read the two stories from The Paris Review that were finalists in fiction:

“The Lover” by Damon Galgut
“Departure” by Alistair Morgan

FROM THE NEW ISSUE

Interiors
Rainer Maria Rilke

With boys, growing up means coming-of-age. Big girls, though, are much less “of age” than little ones. You kiss the little ones often and openly; you want to kiss the big ones in secret. That is a difference, and surely one of the strangest. The boys grow up into their manhood so sturdily and steadily; all of a sudden it fits them, you don’t know how. The girls let go of their children’s dresses suddenly and stand there, timid and freezing, at the start of a wholly different life, where the words and the coins they are used to are no longer valid currency.

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