June 15, 2012 Bulletin The Paris Review in Vice By Lorin Stein For their fiction issue, Vice magazine asked Sadie and me to write the Dos and Don’ts. A dream come true! Except it turns out to be much harder than it looks. Eventually Sadie connected with her inner mean kid … but some of us just will never be arbiters of cute, and I’m learning to accept that.
June 8, 2012 Bulletin See You There: Paris Review at the Strand By Sadie Stein Mark your calendars! This coming Wednesday, June 13, join The Paris Review and the Strand for the first of a series of literary salons. For our kickoff event, actress Martha Plimpton will read from Dorothy Parker’s 1957 Art of Fiction interview, and Wallace Shawn will read Denis Johnson’s “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking.” In addition, we’ll unveil the winner of our tote-bag contest. Wednesday, June 13, 7 P.M.–8:30 P.M. The Strand Bookstore, Third-floor Rare Book Room 828 Broadway at 12th Street Admission: Buy a copy of the current Paris Review or a $15 Strand gift card. Please note that online orders require payment at the time of checkout to guarantee admission.
June 6, 2012 Bulletin Special Summer Subscription Offer! By The Paris Review You’ve read about our Summer issue. But wait, there’s more: subscribe now and for a mere $30, get a full year of The Paris Review. That’s right, this week you can get four issues of fiction, poetry, essays, and all the rest for only $30, which is, yes, $7.50 an issue, and, yes, a real bargain. And $10 off Canadian and international subscriptions, too! Offer good through Friday, June 15. Subscribe now!
June 6, 2012 Bulletin Introducing Our Summer Issue! By The Paris Review Unlike some magazines, we don’t do “theme” issues. And yet, as we collected the material that makes up 201, we couldn’t help notice that the issue had a decidedly … dramatic bent. Not just interviews with Tony Kushner and Wallace Shawn, but Ann Beattie’s story, “The Astonished Woodchopper,” featuring just that; a Sam Lipsyte story about a modern-day duel; Roberto Bolaño poems about sex and betrayal; Rich Cohen on pirates; Waris Ahluwalia on animal attraction; Davy Rothbart telling the true story of the best night of his life; plus, J.D. Daniels directing you to eat your parents. Tony Kushner: In some ways the Internet is definitely an enemy. This morning I was going to work on a Lincoln rewrite before I came to meet you. A couple of days ago I biked all over Provincetown looking for a needle threader—you know, one of those old-fashioned little tin discs with a cameo on it and a thin wire loop sticking out. I found one and bought it. I’m trying to teach myself how to needlepoint. I even considered bringing my needlepointing here, needlepointing during the interview, but then what would you think? Anyway, I bought this needle threader, but it was crap–two uses into it, the thing broke. So, this morning before working on Lincoln, I decided I would go online and find a really good needle threader. And who knew that on Amazon alone, there are dozens of needle threaders? So I started thinking, Why does this needle threader have five starts and this one four and a half? And this one only has two, isn’t that interesting? Can you imagine who got this needle threader and was really disappointed? And then, it’s like, Oh my God, it’s ten o’clock! I didn’t do any work. Wallace Shawn: I wish there were more plays about a life that is exactly like mine. I would love that! If the program says, ‘An apartment in Manhattan today,’ I’m thrilled! And if it says, ‘An apartment in Chelsea, in Manhattan, today,’ where I live, I’d be even more thrilled. I’m amazed if I can see an actor imitate someone with a French accent—that’s fantastic—and I’m even more excited if an actor can illuminate the psychological state of a person similar to me and the people I know. So I do like naturalistic theater. But I like many kinds of theater. Plus, poetry from John Ashbery, Sophie Cabot Black, Raúl Zurita, Octavio Paz, Lucie Brock-Broido, and David Ferry; nonfiction by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; and a new translation of Virgil. Subscribe now!
June 6, 2012 Bulletin The 1966 Tee, Ready for Summer By Sadie Stein At left, a candid shot of the 1966 tee, taken over the weekend. I’m here to tell you that in addition to being soft, cozy, and nifty looking, it makes a great beach cover-up, too! Get yours now!
June 5, 2012 Bulletin Four Ties, and Counting By Lorin Stein A few months ago our friend Kirk Miller, of Miller’s Oath, made a small batch of Paris Review ties–twenty-four, to be exact. I bought one. Several members of our board did the same. We have four ties left—one of each! So, as you see, this is a true limited edition. Give one of them to your dad for Father’s Day. Each comes with a free subscription to The Paris Review. Buy one today! While supplies last.