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Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's 1910 literary debut, 'The Victim' is explored in this podcast episode. The story delves into the art of tattooing and follows the life of a renowned painter turned tattoo artist. It explores the infatuation of a man with a mysterious woman in a palanquin and a confrontation of paintings that reveal a girl's true nature and future.

Join Sean Thor Conroe on a captivating journey across the United States in 'The Walk Book'. Experience intense hiking, rain-soaked field recordings, encounters with nature, kind strangers, and the importance of finding the right direction. Discover the challenges faced, including stomach problems and unexpected encounters, leading to a challenging time setting up camp in the rain and hail. Reflect on the importance of taking responsibility for one's own journey, the use of headphones during walks, and the intrigue of mysterious sounds in the canal water. Encounter turtles, striking conversations, and a moment when a pocket Bible is burned along the canal.

Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize-winning Polish writer, discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in Krajanów where she lived near translators of William Blake.

“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed, a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai. The performance is paired with excerpts from his Art of Fiction interview with Lucy Ives. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was mixed and sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger. Additional Links: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8016/the-art-of-fiction-no-260-robert-gluck https://theparisreview.org/miscellaneous/7896/about-ed-robert-gluck Subscribe to the Paris Review

“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads her essay “Scenes from an Open Marriage” and chats with the Review’s deputy editor, Lidija Haas, and senior producer of the podcast, Helena de Groot. This episode was produced, sound-designed, and mixed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger. Additional Links: theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/29/scenes-from-an-open-marriage/ Subscribe to the Paris Review

“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.” This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore. It was sound-designed, mixed, and features original scoring by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger. Additional Links: theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457422/so-to-speak-by-hayes-terrance Subscribe to the Paris Review

Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems women were not supposed to write. She reads three poems, including 'Sisters of Sexual Treasure', and talks about breaking taboos, intense pleasure, childhood radio, and defiance.

Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem along with works by Toi Dericotte and Rainer Maria Rilke inside IKEA. The discussion includes reflections on IKEA furniture assembly, memories associated with a bed, and the experience of reading poetry in an IKEA closet. The episode also features insights into the poems read, acknowledgments to sponsors, and closing credits.

Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be,” which was published in issue no. 243 of the Review. The story, dark and uplifting by turns, is a portrait of “just another late-forties dyke entirely too into basketball, dogs, and memes.” This episode was produced and sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger. Additional Links: theparisreview.org/fiction/7963/this-is-everything-there-will-ever-be-rivers-solomon rivers-solomon.com/ Subscribe to the Paris Review

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Catch up now on earlier seasons & then tune in November 15th for the fourth season.