“Mitchell claimed to know the exact moment when he metamorphosed into an obsessed collector.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/27/see-everything-on-joseph-mitchells-objects/
“I, of course, had a fantasy that I could write sanity into existence.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/10/25/everything-but-money-on-katherine-dunn/
"Writers don’t want biographers, and I know Sebald wouldn’t want me."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/10/04/ensnaring-sebald/
Chris Kraus remembers the late writer, in life and in death. Like everything in the past, everyone remembers it differently, and some of the people involved hardly remember at all. We’re tal...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/22/littoral-madness/
“Every once in a while, there are notes like this one: ‘Death is not knowing that we have ever lived.’”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/06/28/friendship-hiding-archives/
Read Part 1 and Part 2. With a career spanning thirty-four years, cartoonist Joe Ollmann is fairly old. He is the author of seven graphic novels; one of them, This Will All End in Tears, won ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/01/making-of-a-comics-biography-part-3/
Read Part 1 here. With a career spanning thirty-four years, cartoonist Joe Ollmann is fairly old. He is the author of seven graphic novels; one of them, This Will All End in Tears, won a Doug ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/25/making-comics-biography-part-2/
It’s actually quite apropos that a that a biography of William Seabrook should be done in the gutter press medium of the comic book …
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/18/making-comics-biography-part-1/
I was working on a book and an exhibition about W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh photographs in 1998 when I learned about his voluminous, inexplicable, irresistible collection of reel-to-reel tapes...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/11/11/gene-smiths-sink/
On reimagining what a biography can look like. In December 2012, I spent several days in Laurel, Mississippi, with my wife, researching her grandmother’s family history and childhood. I also di...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/05/writing-a-life/