On Press with 'The Paris Review'

How good is our two hundredth issue? So good that Matt, an operator at the Sheridan Press, accidentally let slip about five hundred sheets from the press—get this—while he was reading a few pages from our interview with Bret Easton Ellis. "I didn't know he'd written so many books," Matt explained. "I was reading this article and didn't look up for a few minutes."

(We don't blame you, Matt. It's a damn fine interview.)

Managing editor Nicole Rudick and I are in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on our quarterly trip to the Sheridan Press, where our latest issue is running hot off the presses. We usually hole up for the day in the "Library"—it's far enough away from the actual printers that we can't cause much trouble—but this time Todd, Sheridan's prepress manager, was kind enough to take us around for a tour.

A Heidelberg press printing the cover of issue 200.

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