{"id":142214,"date":"2020-01-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=142214"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:16:10","slug":"announcing-our-new-publisher-mona-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/announcing-our-new-publisher-mona-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Our New Publisher, Mona Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_142216\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image004.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142216\" class=\"wp-image-142216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image004.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image004-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image004-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mona Simpson. Photo: Gaspar Tringale.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Paris Review Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Mona Simpson as the magazine\u2019s new publisher. Simpson succeeds Susannah Hunnewell, who passed away in June 2019. Previous publishers include founding publisher Sadruddin Aga Khan, Drue Heinz, Deborah Pease, and Antonio Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson began her involvement with <em>The Paris Review<\/em> as a work-study student in Columbia\u2019s M.F.A. program, eventually joining the staff as a senior editor, serving in that capacity for five years. During her tenure, Simpson convinced George Plimpton to provide the staff with health insurance for the first time, and she discovered several unknown authors in the magazine\u2019s slush pile, a number of whom have gone on to become significant voices in contemporary literature.<\/p>\n<p>During her time as an editor, Simpson completed her first novel, <em>Anywhere but Here<\/em>. She left the magazine for Princeton\u2019s Hodder Fellowship. She held the Samuelson Levy Chair in Languages and Literature at Bard College, where she is now a visiting writer, while on the faculty at UCLA. She has been a member of the board of directors and the editorial committee of <em>The Paris Review<\/em> since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson is the author of six acclaimed novels, which have been widely translated. A film was adapted from one of them. She\u2019s received many awards for her fiction, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA award, the Whiting Award, the Lila Acheson Wallace\u2013Reader\u2019s Digest Award, the Heartland Prize, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This year, her short story \u201cWrong Object,\u201d first published in <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>, is included in the <em>Best American Short Stories<\/em> anthology. Her seventh novel, <em>The Humble House<\/em>, will be published next year.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome Mona into her expanded role with <em>The Paris Review<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simpson succeeds Susannah Hunnewell, who passed away in June 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing Our New Publisher, Mona Simpson by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Simpson succeeds Susannah Hunnewell, who passed away in June 2019.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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