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The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by George Takei, Lena Waithe, and many others. Catch up on earlier seasons, and listen to the trailer for Season 4 now.

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  • Inside the Issue | “I Don’t Do Innocents: A Radio Play in One Act” by Anne Carson

    Inside the Issue | “I Don’t Do Innocents: A Radio Play in One Act” by Anne Carson
    Mar 4 2026

    A special production of Anne Carson’s “I Don’t Do Innocents," which first appeared in issue no. 253 (Fall 2025). Produced by Complicité for The Paris Review, directed by Simon McBurney, and featuring Carson herself reading the stage directions, this radio play takes place during a wedding party as the bride’s younger sister eavesdrops from the roof through a drainpipe.


    I Don’t Do Innocents

    Written by Anne Carson.

    Directed by Simon McBurney.

    Sound design by Benjamin Grant.

    Music composed by Josh Sneesby.


    Produced by Tim Bell with Rima Dodd.


    Company: Thomas Arnold, Annabel Arden, Emma Corrin, Tamzin Griffin, Richard Katz, Finn Deutsch Kelly, Simon McBurney, and Sarah Slimani.


    Stage directions read by Anne Carson.


    Carson’s radio play can be read online at: https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8432/i-dont-do-innocents-a-radio-play-in-one-act-anne-carson.

    Subscribe to The Paris Review at www.theparisreview.org/subscribe.

    Find out more about Complicité: www.complicite.org.

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    21 mins
  • Inside the Issue | "My Life, By Barbara Rosenberg," by Jordy Rosenberg

    Inside the Issue | "My Life, By Barbara Rosenberg," by Jordy Rosenberg
    Nov 17 2025

    Jordy Rosenberg reads his story “My Life, by Barbara Rosenberg,” from issue no. 253 (Fall 2025), told from the perspective of Barbara, a mother from Brooklyn who is ready to battle a corduroy blazer and the child who wants to wear it freely.

    This episode was produced by John DeLore, Lori Dorr, and Emily Stokes. The music used in this episode is “Gamelan Ornaments,” composed and performed by David Cieri.

    Rosenberg’s story can be read online at:

    https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8430/my-life-by-barbara-rosenberg-jordy-rosenberg

    Subscribe to The Paris Review at www.theparisreview.org/subscribe.
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    45 mins
  • Personals | “I Got Snipped”

    Personals | “I Got Snipped”
    Oct 6 2025

    Joseph Earl Thomas reads his essay “I Got Snipped: Notes after a Vasectomy,” about the best sexual decision he ever made.

    This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by John DeLore. Our theme song for this series is “Bryant Park and Ride,” composed and performed by David Cieri.

    Joseph Earl Thomas’s essay can be found online at:

    https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08/01/i-got-snipped-notes-after-a-vasectomy/

    Subscribe to The Paris Review at www.theparisreview.org/subscribe.
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    18 mins
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