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“He will live on for decades—eating, talking, laughing, fucking—while she will cease to exist in just a few weeks.”
The Paris Review promotes the most exciting writers of the day and supports inquisitive readers the world over.
On a novel about a vacuum-cleaner salesman, demo tapes, and the music of Tyler Childers.
“As a girl, that’s how you made it / to first base. You didn’t kiss, / you were kissed.”
“Every sentence that I’ve tried to put here to frame the moment feels like a doormat laid on blood, an unstoppable force colliding with an intolerable object in slow motion, beyond the need of being named.”
“After talking about his vegetables, we inevitably talk about the past.”