Announcing Issue 200!

It's The Paris Review's 200th issue, and that's a big deal.

As if two hundred volumes of fiction, poetry, belles-lettres, and iconic interviews weren't reason enough to celebrate, this one is something special, including: fiction by Lorrie Moore, David Means, and Matt Sumell; poetry by Adrienne Rich, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel; essays by David Searcy, Geoff Dyer, and John Jeremiah Sullivan; and literary paint chips by Leanne Shapton and Ben Schott.

The Spring issue also contains Maggie Paley's interview with Terry Southern—in the works since 1967:

The great future, not for creative writers, but for professional writers, is in television, because pay television is going to come in, and that will take the place of what now exists in movies. In twenty years, the movies that compete with TV and pay TV will have to be pretty far out. Otherwise people will simply hang with the tube.

Plus, a blockbuster interview with Bret Easton Ellis:

American Psycho came out of a place of severe alienation and loneliness and self-loathing. I was pursuing a life—you could call it the Gentleman's Quarterly way of living—that I knew was bullshit, and yet I couldn't seem to help it. American Psycho is a book about becoming the man you feel you have to be, the man who is cool, slick, handsome, effortlessly moving through the world, modeling suits in Esquire, having babes on his arm … On the surface, like Patrick Bateman, I had everything a young man could possibly want to be 'happy' and yet I wasn't.

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