The Paris Review
American literary quarterly founded in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton; long the principal venue for the Writers at Work interview series. Mailer's debut here is 'The First Day's Interview' (61.10, summer–fall 1961) — his first self-interview, prompted by his interest in Picasso, and the seed of the Metaphysics of the Belly / Political Economy of Time triptych in Cannibals and Christians (66.11).
Mailer’s Paris Review run begins with “The First Day’s Interview” (61.10) — his debut in the magazine, his first self-interview, and the seed of the triptych he completed with “The Metaphysics of the Belly” and “The Political Economy of Time,” all three later collected in Cannibals and Christians (66.11). George Plimpton is the magazine’s editor-in-chief through this period and Mailer’s chief interlocutor in later Paris Review interviews.
Stub; to be expanded as later appearances are added.