The Paris Review Interviews IV

For more than half a century, The Paris Review has offered readers intimate, illuminating conversations with the defining writers of our time. Its celebrated interview series—renowned for its candor and depth—has become an essential archive of literary thought.

This volume gathers an extraordinary range of voices, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron, and many others. Across these wide-ranging exchanges, each writer reflects on the craft in all its dimensions—ambition and failure, discipline and inspiration, and the peculiar rituals that shape a creative life.

Taken together, the interviews form not only a record of literary history but a living masterclass in the art of writing—what Gary Shteyngart aptly called “a colossal literary event.”