The Paris Review Book

- Illustrations : Non - Publisher's note : An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called "the biggest ‘little magazine' in history." To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review , Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of the writers included, this book will inspire a dizzying range of thought and emotion, serving as a cumulative and breathtaking "mirror" to the world we live in. To appear: Jack Kerouac Norman Mailer Louise Erdrich Jonathan Franzen Gabriel García Márquez William Burroughs Denis Johnson David Foster Wallace Raymond Carver Italo Calvino Grace Paley and many more.

"Against all odds, a good amount of the writing still seems fresh even after 50 years....[T]here are approximately six hundred active literary magazines in the United States....Whatever one thinks of the state of American letters, their existence and survival in a country not known for its love of books is nothing short of heroic. If they have learned anything from THE PARIS REVIEW..., it is to keep the literary scholars out and stick to the original writing. And that, as anyone who goes out and buys this anthology is bound to discover, is when the fun starts." - New York Review of Books, 07/03/2003