The Paris Review

S1E1 | Times of Cloud (with Eileen Myles, Wallace Shawn, Maya Angelou, Sadie Stein)

Nov 8, 2017

42:15

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Introduction

2min

In Earliest Morning a Poem by James Skyler

5min

The Language of English

2min

The Importance of Sleeping

2min

The Importance of Love

3min

The Storm Gathered Around Me

2min

The Car Wreck

6min

The Death of a Man in an Ambulance

3min

The Importance of Listening to Doctors

2min

10.

The Paris Review Podcast Continues

2min

11.

The Importance of Deciding to Dance

3min

12.

The Twist Song

4min

13.

The Language Tells You How Much You Can Emroider Without Lying

2min

14.

The Importance of Language

2min

15.

The Paris Review Podcast: Less Time Is Crystal

3min

16.

Jezemin Explains It All on the Paris Review Podcast

2min

Poet and downtown icon Eileen Myles reading a poem by James Schuyler; archival tape of Maya Angelou interviewed by George Plimpton, the founding editor of the Review; the legendary actor and writer Wallace Shawn reading Denis Johnson’s famous story “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking”; and a true story by Sadie Stein, read by herself, about doing the twist alone on a Tuesday night.