June 29, 2012 Bulletin Fake Books, Real Books, and YA Austen By The Paris Review A first edition of Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates, complete with dust jacket, has sold at auction for a record £40,630. The Hairpin redesigns the book club. The classics, repackaged for teens. “We didn’t want to go with a muted approach,” understates the publisher. New Yorkers! Help save village institution Revolution Books. Angelenos! A star-studded Bukowski tribute. Fake books from movies that Flavorwire wishes were real.
June 26, 2012 Bulletin Code 451, Psychotic Real Estate By Sadie Stein In what might be the ultimate honor, it has been proposed that the Internet pay tribute to Ray Bradbury. Says The Guardian, “Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is given the status code 451.” Happy birthday, Yves Bonnefoy! Letters to young poets. (And novelists, playwrights, and journalists!) Buy Bret Easton Ellis’s apartment. If you dare. To spend a lot. It is Audiobook Week, and in its honor, you can win a classic pulp noir.
June 18, 2012 Bulletin Welcome, Thessaly! By Sadie Stein Here is some exciting news: our founding Web editor and wonderful friend Thessaly La Force, in from Iowa City, is helming the Daily this week! Look forward to her inimitable wit, wisdom, and style over the coming days and make her feel at home!
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!