{"id":15721,"date":"2011-05-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=15721"},"modified":"2011-05-15T23:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:01:34","slug":"la-reine-is-splitting-for-iowa-vive-la-reine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/la-reine-is-splitting-for-iowa-vive-la-reine\/","title":{"rendered":"La Reine is Splitting for Iowa, Vive La Reine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15759\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Deirdre-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn. 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Deirdre comes to us from <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, where she is currrently an assistant editor and has worked with Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith, among other favorites of ours.<\/p>\n<p>Deirdre will replace our founding web editor, Thessaly La Force, who\u2014having shot like a dazzling meteor across our little sky\u2014is leaving us for the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, where we trust she will blow their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in July The Paris Review\u2014and the Daily\u2014will have a new senior editor: Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn. Deirdre comes to us from The New Yorker, where she is currrently an assistant editor and has worked with Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith, among other favorites of ours. 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