The Paris Review Announces the Return of its Acclaimed Podcast and A New Partnership with PRX
A new season of “The Paris Review Podcast” begins today
The Paris Review — the preeminent literary magazine founded in 1953 — today announced the return of the The Paris Review Podcast. The podcast is now brought to listeners through a new partnership with PRX, one of the world’s top podcast publishers and public radio distributors.
“We’re true admirers of the creativity, vision and global influence of The Paris Review Podcast,” said Jason Saldanha, Chief of Business Development and Content of PRX. “With a genre-defining history, the team are also carving an ambitious future for audio storytelling. We’re pleased to help bring this innovative show to listeners everywhere.”
Season four of The Paris Review Podcast will feature twelve episodes of the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Audiences are invited to intimate conversations with Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds and Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Zach Williams and Japanese literary titan Jun’ichirō Tanizaki; poems by Terrance Hayes, author of So to Speak; nonfiction by masters of the form, including Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by legendary actor George Takei among many others. Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger provides the evocative theme music for this season.
New episodes will be released periodically through March 2024. The first of the new season — available now — features Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be,” which was published in issue no. 243 of The Paris Review. The story by turns dark and uplifting is performed by Emmy-winning writer, producer, actor, and Hillman Grad founder Lena Waithe. In the second episode, poet Maggie Millner stealthily reads her work from issue no. 239 of The Paris Review inside a bustling IKEA. Two other poems from the Review’s archive are also included: Toi Derricotte’s “Bird” and Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Death.”
Season four of The Paris Review Podcast is sponsored by MUBI, the curated streaming service that champions great cinema. The show — an industry favorite, beloved by both makers and listeners — is available free on-demand at theparisreview.org/podcast and across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pocket Casts, and Overcast.
About The Paris Review
Founded in Paris in 1953, The Paris Review is America’s preeminent literary magazine, dedicated to publishing the best new voices in prose, poetry, and visual art. The Review has published early writings by John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, Adrienne Rich, and Philip Roth; other notable contributors include Ottessa Moshfegh, Annie Ernaux, Joy Williams, Hilton Als, Ben Lerner, and Sigrid Nunez. The magazine similarly thrives in the digital space: our complete archive is available online, and the website publishes arts and culture coverage and essays. The Paris Review launched its acclaimed podcast in 2017, giving voice to seventy years of writing and interviews. In the visual arts space, the Paris Review Print Series, launched in 1965, has grown to include the work of more than sixty-five major contemporary artists. The Review has been headquartered in New York City since 1973 and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit since 1999. To discover more, visit theparisreview.org.
About PRX
Celebrating its twentieth year as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, and more, including in 2022 when Futuro Media and PRX won a Pulitzer Prize. Visit PRX.org for more.
