The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. Its first publisher was Sadruddhin Aga Khan; its current publisher is Drue Heinz. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Peter Matthiessen (born May 22, 1927 in New York City) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. ... Harold L. Humes, also known as Doc, was born in Douglas, Arizona in 1926, and died at St. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer and actor. ... Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (January 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003) was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. ... Drue Heinz is the publisher of the famous literary magazine The Paris Review, which was started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ...

The Paris Review's editorial staff has always been focused on the publication's quality, and its mission is to promote the literary arts. In Issue #1, one of the first advisory editors, William Styron, wrote, in an introductory letter to readers: "I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders. So long as they're good." William Styron is an American novelist, born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11, 1925. ...

Although never profitable, over more than 50 years The Paris Review has published work by and interviews with a remarkably diverse and distinguished array of writers and poets, both American and international - some Nobelists, some now forgotten, some up-and-coming, but virtually all worth learning about or re-visiting.

A sample list (and it is only a sample), in alphabetical order, includes the foreign authors Chinua Achebe, Anna Akhmatova, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Brodsky, Italo Calvino, Elias Canetti, Simone de Beauvoir, Isak Dinesen, E. M. Forster, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Seamus Heaney, P. D. James, Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Junichiro Tanizaki, V. S. Naipaul, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Derek Walcott. Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. ... Akhmatova in the 1920s Anna Akhmatova (Russian: , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style) - March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of St Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry in the course of half a century. ... Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ) was a poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992). ... Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. ... Elias Canetti, Nobel Laureate in Literature Elias Canetti (Ruse 25 July 1905- Zurich, 13 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born British-Austrian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, who wrote in German. ... Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. ... Blixen in Kenya, 1918 Isak Dinesen (April 17, 1885-September 7, 1962) was a pen name for the Danish author Karen Blixen. ... E. M. Forster as a young man in about 1905 E.M. Forster should not be confused with C. S. Forester, author of the Horatio Hornblower novels. ... Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (born in 1932), better known as Athol Fugard, is a well-known South African playwright. ... Nadine Gordimer (b. ... Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973) . He was born near Tewkesbury of an educated family with successful business interests in Birmingham. ... Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer and critic whose works explore the ambiguities of modern man and ambivalent moral or political issues in a contemporary setting. ... Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (b. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. ... Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. ... Ian McEwan (born June 21, 1948) is a British novelist, sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work. ... Paul Muldoon (b. ... Leslie Allan Murray (b. ... Haruki Murakami, 村上春樹 Murakami Haruki (born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ... Vladimir Nabokov This page is about the novelist. ... Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎 Tanizaki Junichirō, July 24, 1886 - July 30, 1965) was a Japanese author. ... V.S.Naipauls 2005 book Literary Occasions Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British novelist of Hindu heritage and Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity. ... Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: ) (October 9, 1892 – August 31, 1941) was a Russian poet and writer. ... Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing. ...

It includes well-known 20th-century Americans, such as Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Lowry, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Edgar Wideman. Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was a legendary American writer. ... James Baldwin, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, known for his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English. ... Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999), was an American composer, author, and traveler. ... William S. Burroughs. ... Truman Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Truman García Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories and novels have become classics in the literary world. ... Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. ... Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994, [1]) was an African American scholar and writer. ... Allen Ginsberg in later life Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. ... Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat generation. ... Malcolm Lowry (July 28, 1909 – June 26, 1957) was an English poet and novelist. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and, along with Truman Capote, is considered an innovator of the nonfictional novel. ... Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989) was an American author and critic. ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... Bold text Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is a Jewish-American novelist who is best known for his 1959 collection, Goodbye, Columbus, as well as his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoys Complaint (1969) and for his late-90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral... Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 - October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer. ... Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941 in Washington, DC) is an American writer. ...

Represented, as well, are contemporary fiction writers and poets, "conventional" as well as "experimental," including Ai, Donald Antrim, Rick Bass, Jim Carroll, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lorrie Moore, Rick Moody, and Brenda Shaughnessy, The "Back Issues" section at the Paris Review official website provides a far more extensive list. Florence Anthony (born 1947) is an American poet. ... Donald Antrim (born 1958 in New York) is an author. ... Rick Bass (1958- ) is an award-winning American writer and an environmental activist. ... Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. ... Jeffrey Eugenides [] (born March 8, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish origins. ... Lorrie Moore is a novelist and writer of short stories. ... Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody III October 18, 1961 in New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. ...

During Plimpton's lifetime, The Paris Review was also well-known for the often wild parties that were held regularly at his apartment overlooking the East River on East 72nd Street in New York City. These parties were attended (or crashed) by many an aspiring young writer or editor. New York City waterways: 1. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...

Since Plimpton's death, the journal (since 2000 a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) has been governed by a Board of Directors. The contract of the first editor to succeed Plimpton, Brigid Hughes, was not renewed. The circumstances which caused Hughes contract to go unrenewed have not been made generally known. On March 18, 2005, it was announced in the New York Times that the Board has appointed as the Review's new editor the writer Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families (1998), a groundbreaking study of the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. This article is about the year 2000. ... 501(c)(3) is a provision of the US tax code that provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes, for some non-profit organizations in the United States (see 26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)(3)). The term refers to: Section 501. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Philip Gourevitch (born 1961) is an American author and journalist. ... We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (ISBN 0-312-24335-9) is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and others in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch. ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

As of winter 2005 the average circulation was 8,286 copies.

Paris Review Publications

The Paris Review Book of People With Problems (Picador, 2005)

The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, and Waiting Rooms (Picador, 2004)

The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travel (Picador, 2004)

Latin American Writers at Work (The Modern Library, 2003)

Playwrights at Work (The Modern Library, 2000)

Beat Writers at Work (The Modern Library, 1999)

The Writers Chapbook (The Modern Library, 1999)

Women Writers at Work (Random House, 1998)

External links

• Official Site