“I’ve kept asking questions and trying, through writing, to understand where I come from.”

“I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.”

This is Sybille Bedford’s centennial year—she would have been one hundred years old today—and The Paris Review is marking it with a reading on Thursday, March 24. To learn more, click here. If you are interested in attending, please e-mail us.I have …