{"id":33529,"date":"2012-06-14T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33529"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:43:41","slug":"announcing-the-winner-of-our-tote-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/announcing-the-winner-of-our-tote-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Winner of Our Tote Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33537\" title=\"Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner.jpg 3283w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paris-Review-Tote-Bag-Contest-Winner-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/tonight-join-us-at-the-strand\/\">our kickoff event at the Strand<\/a> was red-letter. We laughed (at Amy Warren\u2019s masterful channeling of Dorothy Parker), we cried (at Wallace Shawn\u2019s interpretation of Denis Johnson\u2019s \u201cCar-Crash While Hitchhiking\u201d), and we marveled at the winner of our Strand-<em>Paris Review<\/em> tote-bag design contest (submitted by Houston\u2019s Roque Strew). Did all the free wine have anything to do with these emotional reactions? We prefer to believe it was due to the overwhelming talent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, our kickoff event at the Strand was red-letter. We laughed (at Amy Warren\u2019s masterful channeling of Dorothy Parker), we cried (at Wallace Shawn\u2019s interpretation of Denis Johnson\u2019s \u201cCar-Crash While Hitchhiking\u201d), and we marveled at the winner of our Strand-Paris Review tote-bag design contest (submitted by Houston\u2019s Roque Strew). 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