Sophie Haigney

New York, San Francisco

Web Editor at The Paris Review

Web editor @parisreview / writing a book about collections

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What Stirs the Life in You? The Garden Asks - The Paris Review

3 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling April 3, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.
Accurate Models of Reality - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling March 4, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.
The best poetry books of 2025 so far

1 month ago | msn.com | Ron Padgett |Rishi Dastidar |Sophie Haigney

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How Do You Write an Opera Based on Moby-Dick? - The Paris Review

2 months ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney

By Sophie Haigney February 21, 2025 In early March, a new production of Moby-Dick will open at the Metropolitan Opera. In some ways, Moby-Dick already has everything an opera needs: narrative drama, memorable characters, high stakes, and even the high seas. But to adapt Herman Melville’s classic text—sometimes called the most famous novel no one has ever read—into a three-hour stage production was no small feat.
We Are Meek and We Shall Inherit No Earth - The Paris Review

2 months ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling February 3, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.
The best poetry books of 2025 so far

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Rishi Dastidar |Sophie Haigney

February: frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry by Diane SeussAlongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to be considered as the most influential American poet of the last 10 years. A former social worker, over six collections she has become renowned for her fearless excavation of her life in her work.
There Lives In Me A Young Girl Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen: 4-star review

Jan 20, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Sophie Haigney

“There lives a young girl in me who will not die,” writes Tove Ditlevsen in a line that gives its poem, and this collection, their titles. “She is no longer me and I am no longer her / but she stares back at me when I look in the mirror / searching for something she hopes to recover.” Many of the poems here, newly translated from Danish by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith, seem to circle a young girl who is both her and not-her, who lives on and doesn’t quite.
The Republican Superstars Eager to Wish You Happy Birthday

Jan 8, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Sophie Haigney

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Books, Lost or Imaginary, Come to Life at the Grolier Club

Dec 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sophie Haigney

At the Grolier Club on the Upper East Side is an object never before displayed in public: an edition of one of Hemingway's first novels, which was stolen when his first wife left a bag unattended on a train in 1922. The manuscript was never recovered, and the novel lost to history.
A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs

Nov 4, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling November 1, 2024 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often, we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We often share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.