A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)

A special bonus episode, recorded live at On Air Fest (urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__on…) on March 8, 2020 (just before social distancing sent everyone home), featuring a crowded room of lovely human beings enjoying an immersive live performance of The Paris Review Podcast. The show opens with excerpts of Toni Morrison’s 1993 Art of Fiction Interview (theparisreview.org/interviews/1888/the-art-of-…), scored live by some of the musicians that created the score for Seasons 1 and 2. Then Vijay Seshadri reads his poem “Ailanthus (theparisreview.org/poetry/415/ailanthus-vijay-…)”; Quincy Tyler Bernstine reads “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons (theparisreview.org/fiction/7531/a-story-for-yo…)” by Rebecca Makkai; finally, Emily Wells provides live scoring for Bill Callahan’s rendition of Adrienne Rich’s poem “The Tree (theparisreview.org/poetry/5013/the-tree-adrien…).”

“The Tree” excerpted from Collected Poems: 1950-2012 © 2016 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. // The musicians providing the live scoring are Curtis Brewer (curtisjsocial.com)on guitar, Sam Ospovat (samospovat.com) on drums, and Mike Brown (lilbrownbass.com) on bass. // Our theme song is composed by David Cieri. (davidcieri.com)