The Paris Review, Issue 216, Spring 2016 by Lorin Stein


The Paris Review, Issue 216, Spring 2016
Title : The Paris Review, Issue 216, Spring 2016
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Perfectbound
Number of Pages : 230
Publication : First published March 1, 2016

Luc Sante on the art of nonfiction: "I think of much of what I do, most of my books, as some kind of poetry." Robert Caro on the art of biography: "The more facts you get, the more facts you collect, the closer you come to whatever truth there is. The base of biography has to be facts."

New fiction by Jensen Beach, Chris Bachelder, Witold Gombrowicz, Benjamin Hale, Dana Johnson, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Anne-Laure Zevi.

Poems by John Ashbery, Mary Jo Bang, Erica Ehrenberg, Amit Majmudar, J. D. McClatchy, Morgan Parker, Mary Ruefle, Frederick Seidel, James Tate, and Cynthia Zarin.

Portfolio curated by Luc Sante.

The Paris Review, Issue 216, Spring 2016 Reviews

  • Jaime Samson

    Loved the first story, last story was harder to get through

  • Brian

    Great issue, really enjoyed short stories by Jensen Beach and Dana Johnson. Caro interview as well. Very happy to be done with Throwback Special - hoping PR serializes a novel with something resembling a plot or interesting premise. Infantilized men obsessing over schoolboy insecurities, not so much. Rest of the issue made up for that huge miss.

  • Julie

    Highlights are the exquisite stories by Benjamin Hale, Anne-Laure Zevi, Jensen Beach; Mary Ruefle's breathtaking poetry; and the fascinating interviews with Luc Sante and Robert Caro. So very happy to see the end of The Throwback Special. Now I no longer have to fight the urge to throw my PR at the wall.

  • Olesya Lyuzna

    Really connected to Luc Sante in his interview, that feeling of rootlessness, of home being an uncertain concept when you've moved around so much.

    Not a huge fan of the serialized novel, The Throwback Special, but maybe I'm being unfair because I don't like football.

    Favourites include:
    Migration – Jensen Beach
    She Deserves Everything She Gets – Dana Johnson
    Four Poems by Mary Jo Bang

    Overall, a solid issue, although not my personal favourite. Five stars for surprises and leaving my literary comfort zone.

  • Ned

    favorite bits (*= especially great):
    Luc Sante, interview spr2016 *
    Robert Caro, spr 2016 *
    "The Throwback Special, Part 4" by Chris Bachelder *
    "Don't Worry, Baby" by Benjamin Hale

  • Irena

    《巴黎评论 诗人访谈》（美）《巴黎评论》编辑部 编。

    The Paris Review The Art of Poetry

  • T P Kennedy

    It's always a mixed bag but this issue is perhaps more mixed than most. It was worth buying for the in depth and fascinating interview with Robert Caro. It's always great to get an update on the next volume of his monumental LBJ biography. Some of the poetry was interesting but the fiction left me cold.

  • Michael Kitchen

    Don't Worry Baby by Benjamin Hale - 4
    Nom by Anne-Larue Zevi - 3
    Four Stories by Craig Morgan - 2
    Migration by Jensen Beach - 3
    The Tragic Tale of the Baron and His Wife by Witold Gombrowicz - 3
    She Deserves Everything She Gets by Dana Johnson - 4

  • Erika Dreifus

    Read this earlier, but could not locate to track here until now. As usual, some excellent work here.

  • Donald

    The Caro interview is so good that the rest of the issue doesn't really matter.

  • Jeff

    Opening Benjamin Hale story was great. And like other reviewers here I'm glad The Throwback Special is finally over.