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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.

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  2. Fiction! Poetry! Essays! Art things! Subscribe to ‘The Paris Review’ for nearly 40% off the cover price:

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    in which “Mary-Louise Parker reading Joy Williams” gives me a minor stroke

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  4. “Without sounding utterly pretentious, I do think of almost everything I write as a poem.” —Luc Sante

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    Neil Gaiman on Ursula K. Le Guin: The Rabble-Rouser with a Gentle Smile via

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  6. “When I see ‘The Baby Book’ at bookstores, I want to snatch the copies off the shelves and dump them in the baby’s bathwater.”

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    Will Fenstermaker responds to Mirtha Dermisache's work in : Dermisache's SELECTED WRITINGS, co-published by Siglio Press, will hit the shelves in March! Find it here:

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  8. “The key is that the anxiety, the stress, isn’t a narrative. It’s what interrupts the narrative.” —Claudia Rankine

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    'He was forever revising his life to make it even more interesting and melodramatic than it had been.'  takes a look at how Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) strictly controlled his own reputation and wove his own myth.

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  10. “I’ve never really been a good student. I’ve always, always hated school.” —Luc Sante

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    gotta disagree with some of the ratings here. the eiffel tower has been good ever since that woman married it

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    I wrote about female ambition and motherhood, because that's pretty much what I've been thinking about for the past 10 years.

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  14. “Nicanor was a great poet because he didn’t mince words and he had liberated poetry from the earnestness of the Romantics.” Remembering the grouchy but brilliant Nicanor Parra, who passed away last week at a hundred three:

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  15. “I read other writers to discover what they do well.” —Donald Barthelme

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  16. “You dreamed the day before of being cool / In the crowd, your matching tiki torches / Almost touching high in the tepid night, The old flag finally out and someone / To drive the car. Wake up. We’ve sent something / To Saturn. It’s 2017.”

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    "Jazz, now well advanced into its second century, had an especially violent youth. It was more than merely dangerous—it was homicidal." KING ZENO author writes for the about Jazz's dangerous beginnings:

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    Episode 10 of ‘The Paris Review Podcast’ has arrived! This week’s installment includes Dakota Johnson reading Roberto Bolaño, David Sedaris reading Frank O’Hara, Mary-Louise Parker reading Joy Williams, and more. Listen and subscribe here:

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  19. “There’s a line between revision and fretting, just working it to death.” —Toni Morrison

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  20. “Write like a man, I told myself every time I sat down to work, although those weren’t the words I used. I actually said, Write like you have a dick.”

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  21. “Literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.” The wisdom of Muriel Spark:

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