Nathaniel Rich

Nathaniel Rich

Author; Senior Editor, The Paris Review

Nathaniel Rich lives in New York City, where he is an editor at The Paris Review. He is the author of San Francisco Noir and The Mayor's Tongue is his first novel.

7mins
“Living in this apartment, working in this job, he really believed he was free.”
4mins
Before the Paris Review, Rich worked at The New York Review of Books. Here he discusses what he learned from NYRB’s editor, Bob Silvers.
2mins
Rich’s editorial process looks like stacks and stacks of paper.
1mins
Rich wrote his novel in secret.
2mins
The crucial role of miscommunication.
2mins
It’s not magical realism, Rich says. It’s closer to Bulgakov’s style.
4mins
A summer in Trieste inspired Rich’s first novel.
1mins
The five books Rich can’t live without.
1mins
It started with an early obsession with Stephen King.