loosely based on...

INTERVIEWER Do people in your books ever come up to you and say, I recognize myself? AUCHINCLOSS They certainly do, but they’re usually so f...

perfective vision

I call it the pederasty of autobiography; the older self actually loves the younger self in a way the younger self never could have felt or...

metatexts

These are very important for the writer today. For they are probably the way the writer may still be independent. You asked me before wheth...

Trevor Butterworth interviews Lorin Stein, editor of the Paris Review, at Lunch with the FT .

I AIN'T PEOPLE

But it’s a fact of life, in your late teens and early twenties, that’s just what people do: they go out. Taylor Plimpton, at the Paris Revi...

For those who don't follow these things, Lorin Stein, former editor at Farrar, Straus, Giroux, is now editor of the Paris Review, and th...