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In the tradition of The Paris Review's renowned Writers at Work series of written interviews, Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, will interview Sam Shepard, one of America’s most influential playwrights.

Celebrating Mr. Shepard's return to The Public Theater, we invite you to experience an in-depth conversation, led by Mr. Gourevitch, about Mr. Shepard's contributions to the American theater and the writing life.
 

Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission:

“The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book. I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good.” - as written by William Styron