Editor Lorin Stein reads Kristin Dombek’s essay “Letter From Williamsburg,” from The Paris Review Summer 2013 issue: http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/205.

Lorin Stein reads Kristin Dombek’s “Letter From Williamsburg”

Writer Emma Cline reads her short story “Marion,” from The Paris Review Summer 2013 issue: www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/205.

Emma Cline Reads Her Short Story “Marion”

Hailey Gates, head of advertising and promotions, reads Frederick Seidel’s poem “Widening Income Inequality,” from The Paris Review’s upcoming Fall issue.

Hailey Gates reads Frederick Seidel’s “Widening Income Inequality”

From our Art of Fiction interview with Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer on Martin Luther King, Jr., and his legacy to the world.

Chinua Achebe on Martin Luther King, Jr.

From our Art of Fiction interview with Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his connection to Africa and his potential.

Chinua Achebe on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s connection to Africa

In one of his many visits to the 92nd Street Y, poet W.H. Auden reads from a selection of his work, including “Bucolics” (a sequence of seven poems about man's relation to nature) and selections from “Horae Cononicae” (a series of poems which dramatize Auden’s religious position).

Recorded January 22, 1955, at 92nd Street Y. Read Cynthia Ozick’s reflection on listening to Auden at http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/22/w-h-auden-at-the-92nd-street-y/. More information can be found at http://www.92Y.org/VPC.

W.H. Auden Reads “Bucolics”  and “Horae Cononicae” at 92Y

Frederick Seidel reads his poem, “For Holly Andersen.”

“For Holly Andersen”

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From a forthcoming tribute to Amiri Baraka by Heroes Are Gang Leaders. Thomas Sayers Ellis’s poem “Polo Goes to the Moon” appears in The Paris Review No. 209, Summer 2014.

Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet
James Brandon Lewis, Saxophone
Luke Stewart, Bass
Ryan Frazier, Trumpet
Janice Lowe, Piano
Warren "Trae" Crudup, Drums
The question "Vowels?" asked at the end by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Heroes Are Gang Leaders – Amiri’s Green Chim Chim-knees Growth Tribe

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