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2015 MacArthur Fellows in The Paris Review
By Dan Piepenbring
Nicole Eisenman, Black Pepper Marlboro, ca. 1993, ink and mixed media on paper, 22″ x 30″. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. © Nicole Eisenman.
Congratulations to the MacArthur Foundation's Class of 2015, four of whom you can find in the pages of The Paris Review and here on the Daily. Read More
You Read Them Here First
By The Paris Review
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (photo: Sue Kwon) and Angela Flournoy (photo: LaToya T. Duncan)
Hats off to our National Book Award nominees—Angela Flournoy, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jane Hirshfield—all of whose books include pieces that first appeared in The Paris Review.
You can read Angela's fiction and Rowan's poetry in our forthcoming collection of young writers, The Unprofessionals, alongside seminal works by Ben Lerner, Ottessa Moshfegh, Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and others whose voices have already helped define a generation in American letters.
Preorder now and get the anthology of the year for just $12.
Visit Us at the Brooklyn Book Festival
This Sunday from ten till six, you'll find us manning booth 307 at the Brooklyn Book Festival, where we'll have our new Fall issue, T-shirts, tote bags, pencils, and vintage back issues. Come shoot the breeze.
Our managing editor Nicole Rudick will be moderating a panel at five that evening, too—it's called The Art of Story, and it features A. M. Homes and Adrian Tomine discussing "fictional voices emerge across different mediums and genres."
Preorder The Unprofessionals and Get 25% Off
This November, we're publishing our first anthology of new writing in more than fifty years. The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review features thirty-one stories, poems, and essays by a new generation of writer. Leslie Jamison calls it "electric": "I got to encounter voices I already loved and fall in love with writers I'd never read, got to realize this would be the day I'd always remember as the day I read them first."
Now through November 16, you can preorder The Unprofessionals from our online store for just $12—a 25 percent discount from the cover price. Click here to reserve your copy!
If you've never browsed through our (recently redesigned) store, you'll find T-shirts, back issues, our print series, subscriptions, and more. Have a look, and subscribe today.
Our Fall Issue Is Here
Our Fall 2015 issue, featuring a detail of Nyssa Sharp's Girl with the Yellow Skirt.
Our new Fall issue features an Art of Poetry interview with Eileen Myles, who talks to Ben Lerner about life in New York, getting sober, and the steadiness of her poems:
I like the idea of writing a poem I could have written thirty years ago. I'm the factory. My writing fears manifest more on the order of my inability to stop being Eileen Myles. I guess I don't worry about my poems so much. I worry about me.
Myles also shares a few of her favorite artworks in our portfolio.
And our managing editor Nicole Rudick discusses the Art of Fiction with Jane Smiley:
One of the things I love about novels is that, in addition to offering good stories and having ideas about how the world works, they're also artifacts about the details of the time in which the author lived … I would imagine somebody in a hundred years reading one of my novels and going, Are you shitting me? The shingles were going the wrong direction? Or, What are shingles?
There's also one of James Salter's final lectures; new fiction from Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Dacey, and Deborah Eisenberg; the second installment of Chris Bachelder's novel The Throwback Special, with illustrations by Jason Novak; poems by Ange Mlinko, Eileen Myles, Michael Hofmann, Stephen Dunn, Kevin Prufer, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Nathaniel Mackey, and Linda Pastan; and an essay by Robert Anthony Siegel.
Announcing The Unprofessionals: Our New Anthology
This November, we're publishing our first anthology of new writing in more than fifty years. The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review features thirty-one stories, poems, and essays by a new generation of writer. It's a master class, across genres, in what is best and most alive in American literature today.
Take a look at the cover and you'll recognize names such as John Jeremiah Sullivan, Atticus Lish, Emma Cline, Ben Lerner, and others who have become emblematic of a renaissance in American writing. Although these are younger writers, already any history of the era would be incomplete without them. At a moment when it's easy to see art as another product—and when writers, especially, are encouraged to think of themselves as professionals—the stories, poems, and essays in this collection have no truck with self-promotion. They turn inward. They're not afraid to stare, to dissent, or even to offend. They answer only to themselves.
In the coming months, we'll reveal more about the anthology, which Akhil Sharma calls "the best possible introduction to the best literary magazine we have." Stay tuned!