THE PARIS REVIEW BOOK FOR PLANES, TRAINS, ELEVATORS AND WAITING ROOMS

THE PARIS REVIEW BOOK FOR PLANES,
TRAINS, ELEVATORS AND WAITING ROOMS
The Paris Review
Picador (St. Martin’s)

The stories and poems (all published previously in The Paris Review from writers like Billy Collins, Alice Munro and Philip Roth) are arranged according to length. The organizing idea is to provide easy entry to the contents of this wonderful anthology for readers on planes, trains, elevators and waiting rooms. This fall I’ve been traveling frequently (and waiting around various places) and I felt it was my obligation as a bookseller to test the veracity of the editor’s claims. They are all true, but I quickly discovered that I can’t read in elevators, and I had an odd moment when I couldn’t stop laughing in a crowded hospital office while reading a dark and very funny story by Rick Moody. All of us were waiting for colonoscopy tests, and my behavior obviously made the other people in the room uneasy.