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Staff Picks: Turtles, Tornados, Teen Dirt-bike Racers
From Works and Days. “I’m not even sure anything happened to me. / Or to whom everything happened.” So ends Brenda Shaughnessy’s long poem of adolescence “Is There Something I Should Know.” Reading...
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How to Keep a Journal
A history of the discipline, and of myself. Samuel F. B. Morse, Susan Walker Morse (The Muse) (detail), 73 3/4 x 57 5/8, 1945. A few months after I turned sixteen, I began to keep a journal. I labeled...
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Herzog in the Jungle
Still from Fitzcarraldo. Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s...
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Peter Matthiessen’s Notebook
A way to talk about work and friendship. Peter Matthiessen. Before I became friends with Peter Matthiessen, I was his editor. We talked on the phone and our conversations, when I’d reach him driving...
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Excerpts from a Grumpy Russian Poet’s Diary
Igor Kholin. Illustrations by Ripley Whiteside. The Russian poet Igor Kholin died in 1999 an underappreciated talent, but his literary star is on the rise. His Selected Poems were published in 1999...
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Jamaica Kincaid’s Rope of Live Wires
IN HER STUDY AT HOME IN NORTH BENNINGTON, 2018. INTERVIEW STILL FRAME COURTESY OF STEPHANIE BLACK. The first novel I read by Jamaica Kincaid was Annie John, the first novel she wrote. She drafted it—as...
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Other People’s Diaries
While reading Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion, I often caught myself mistaking it for a diary. The memoir details an illicit affair in prose that feels startlingly immediate, full of particulars that...
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Clipboard, 2022
I don’t use a journal, just a small piece of clipboard material on which I place quartered (torn) sections of 8.5 x 11″ paper that I have folded in half. I generally keep several such fresh sheets...
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The Sixties Diaries
My father, Ted Berrigan, is primarily known for his poetry, especially his book The Sonnets, which reimagined the traditional sonnet from a perspective steeped in the art of assemblage circa the early...
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Writing Is a Monstrous Act: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
Novelist Hernan Diaz. Photograph by Pascal Perich. Money talks—so goes the truism—but rarely is it the subject of fiction. “Class? Sure. Exploitation? Absolutely. Money? Not so much,” Hernan Diaz...
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