The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date. This edition includes: Fiction by Ottessa Moshfegh, Jenny Offill, J. D. Daniels, Nell Freudenberger, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis and Ben Jahn, the winner of the NPR Three-Minute Fiction Contest: Interviews with Geoff Dyer and Edward P. Jones: Poetry by Kevin Prufer, Susan Stewart, Hilda Hilst, Charlie Smith, Monica Youn, Sylvie Baumgartel, Emily Moore and Linda Pastan: a Portfolio of photographic nudes by Chuck Close.
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About the Author:
The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, T.C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann and many other writers who have given us great literature of the past half century. Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review in 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003. Lorin Stein is the current editor.
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* One of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful -- Margaret Atwood
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date1656
- ISBN 10 1782110429
- ISBN 13 9781782110422
- BindingPaperback
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