{"id":33620,"date":"2012-06-15T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33620"},"modified":"2012-06-18T11:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:30:49","slug":"the-paris-review-in-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/the-paris-review-in-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Paris Review<\/em> in <em>Vice<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ea0fb0f1680f40c01106026c9b6fd4f1_vice_390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ea0fb0f1680f40c01106026c9b6fd4f1_vice_390-e1339770186650.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vice, Dos and Donts\" width=\"390\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ea0fb0f1680f40c01106026c9b6fd4f1_vice_390-e1339770186650.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ea0fb0f1680f40c01106026c9b6fd4f1_vice_390-e1339770186650-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For their fiction issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vice<\/em><\/a> magazine asked Sadie and me to write the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/dos-and-donts\" target=\"_blank\">Dos and Don\u2019ts<\/a>. A dream come true! Except it turns out to be much harder than it looks. Eventually Sadie connected with her inner mean kid \u2026 but some of us just will never be arbiters of cute, and I\u2019m learning to accept that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their fiction issue, Vice magazine asked Sadie and me to write the Dos and Don\u2019ts. A dream come true! Except it turns out to be much harder than it looks. 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