Featuring contributors
Colum McCann, Victor LaValle,
photographer Jeff Antebi
and Managing Editor Caitlin Roper

Please join us at the Half King for a very special night celebrating writing, photography, and the venerable PARIS REVIEW. Issue no. 193 contributors Colum McCann and Victor LaValle will read from their work, and Managing editor Caitlin Roper will discuss the making of a an issue of The Paris Review.

Decade after decade, the Review has introduced the important writers of the day. Adrienne Rich was first published in its pages, as were Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Mona Simpson, Edward P. Jones, and Rick Moody. Selections from Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy appeared in the fifth issue, one of his first publications in English. The magazine was also among the first to recognize the work of Jack Kerouac, with the publication of his short story, "The Mexican Girl," in 1955. Other milestones of contemporary literature, now widely anthologized, also first made their appearance in The Paris Review: Italo Calvino's Last Comes the Raven, Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus, Donald Barthelme's Alice, Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries, Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga, Jeffrey Eugenides's Virgin Suicides, and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections.

Colum McCann is the author of two collections of short stories and five novels, including This Side of Brightness and Zoli, all of which were international best-sellers. His newest novel is Let the Great World Spin was awarded the National Book Award in 2009. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens. He was raised in Queens, New York.

Jeff Antebi is an American photographer.