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Vile Bodies, or Bad Sex Virgins
Hendrick Goltzius, The Fall of Man, 1616, oil on canvas. Courtesy The National Gallery of Art. We have to get our stories straight, she and I, but first we have to get John Updike’s stories straight. I...
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Reading Rooms of Your Dreams, and Other News
From abandoned Wal-Marts to Venetian warrens, thirty places for book lovers. (N.b.: gaining access to number thirteen could be problematic.) A Colorado library is experimenting with loaning out seeds...
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The Art of Losing
Writers often hate talking about the book they’ve just written. On the one hand, books are an exercise in preservation, an old-fashioned sort of external hard drive. But for the author personally, a...
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Master Class
The packet came in the mail. My first MFA workshop would be led by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. So I did what any good writing student does: I bought and read one of her books. I remember humming along...
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“All They Do Is Eat,” And Other News
“It’s about eating lunch. They eat salad and cake. All they do is eat”: in which a two-year-old judges books by their covers. “He tends to devoice a lot of the fricatives, but I take that purely as an...
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What We’re Loving: Trains, Stalkers, and Virgins
In the 1930s, thirteen-year-old Frank Moshinskie started to build a miniature town for his toy trains. Now run by his son and made up of hundreds of buildings, hand-carved figures, and replicas of...
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“Henry James and American Painting” at the Morgan Library
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach, 1872–78, oil on canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Morgan Library is the perfect place to muse on Henry James:...
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Vile Bodies, or Bad Sex Virgins
Hendrick Goltzius, The Fall of Man, 1616, oil on canvas. Courtesy The National Gallery of Art. We have to get our stories straight, she and I, but first we have to get John Updike’s stories straight. I...
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Reading Rooms of Your Dreams, and Other News
From abandoned Wal-Marts to Venetian warrens, thirty places for book lovers. (N.b.: gaining access to number thirteen could be problematic.) A Colorado library is experimenting with loaning out seeds...
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The Art of Losing
Writers often hate talking about the book they’ve just written. On the one hand, books are an exercise in preservation, an old-fashioned sort of external hard drive. But for the author personally, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Master Class
The packet came in the mail. My first MFA workshop would be led by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. So I did what any good writing student does: I bought and read one of her books. I remember humming along...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“All They Do Is Eat,” And Other News
“It’s about eating lunch. They eat salad and cake. All they do is eat”: in which a two-year-old judges books by their covers. “He tends to devoice a lot of the fricatives, but I take that purely as an...
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What We’re Loving: Trains, Stalkers, and Virgins
In the 1930s, thirteen-year-old Frank Moshinskie started to build a miniature town for his toy trains. Now run by his son and made up of hundreds of buildings, hand-carved figures, and replicas of...
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“Henry James and American Painting” at the Morgan Library
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach, 1872–78, oil on canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Morgan Library is the perfect place to muse on Henry James:...
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Announcing Our Winter Issue
Friends sometimes ask me why I still bother going to the theater. It’s a fair question. Most of the time, I’ll mention a play only to complain about it at length—the pretentious set design, the hammy...
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The Blackstairs Mountains
Illustration by Na Kim. In the new Winter issue of The Paris Review, Belinda McKeon interviews the writer Colm Tóibín, author of ten novels, two books of short stories, and several collections of...
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Relentlessness: A Syllabus
Photograph by Sophie Haigney. In our new Winter issue, Belinda McKeon interviewed Colm Tóibín, the author of ten novels, two books of short stories, and several collections of essays and journalism....
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Dear Mother
The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ca. 1880. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In the second half of the seventies, when I was in my twenties, I wrote letters home to Ireland from Barcelona. Early in...
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