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Staff Picks: Keith Haring’s Journals, ‘Library’

I could spend days nosing around the Guggenheim’s online publication archive. The museum has digitized a number of its rare and out-of-print publications and made them available for free. What bounty!...

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Queen of the Web

Queen Elizabeth has put Queen Victoria’s complete journals online. (Well, in collaboration with Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest.) The 141 journals, sourced from the Royal Archives, chronicle...

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On This Day

“I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851              

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The Diary Diaries

At the end of last year I returned to England after two years working in West Africa. In my bedroom at my parents’ house in Cambridge I encountered my old diaries. They sat in that ancient space...

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Say Stupid Shit

Richard Lindner, Boy with Machine, 1954. According to Guattari and Deleuze, the painting validates one of their theses: “the turgid little boy has already plugged a desiring-machine into a social...

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False Alarm

Cheever, right, with Updike on The Dick Cavett Show in 1981. From “On the Literary Life,” a series of excerpts from John Cheever’s journals published in our Fall 1993 fortieth-anniversary issue....

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Salton Sea Notes

Soda fountains, rest stops, barber shops, motels: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California travel journals, 1961.A drawing by Ferlinghetti. TIRED OF THE FOG AND COLD? COME TO CALIFORNIA’S RIVIERA— Sailing,...

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Got Your Tongue

From Louis Wain’s schizophrenic cat drawings.From the psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s transcripts of his sessions with Edith E., a young woman he took on as a patient in 1954 and later wrote about in The...

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Culture Is a Wonderful Fiction

From the cover of The Guy Davenport Reader.From Guy Davenport’s journals, as published in The Guy Davenport Reader (2013), edited by Erik Reece. Davenport was born on this day in 1927; he spent most of...

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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 it...

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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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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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