{"id":35137,"date":"2012-07-09T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=35137"},"modified":"2013-02-04T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:11:35","slug":"win-a-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/win-a-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Win a Bicycle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My predecessor George Plimpton was known for cycling around New York\u00a0 before it was either cool or safe (before, some would say, it was sane). And nowadays, we at TPR<\/em> are still devoted city bikers; our rides can be found chained up and down White Street. So in celebration of the Tour de France\u2014and thanks to the generosity of Hudson Urban Bikes<\/a>\u2014we, along with Velojoy<\/a>, are giving away one of Hudson Urban Bikes’ Beater Bicycles Roadster<\/a>. This classic city bike comes in a men\u2019s and a women\u2019s model, both of which may be seen in the diabolical and rather enigmatic illustration below.<\/p>\n

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To win the HUB Beater, tell us what you see in this picture:<\/p>\n

  • in three hundred words or fewer <\/li>\n
  • in the style of (choose one!<\/em>)\u00a0Elizabeth Bishop<\/a>, Ray Bradbury<\/a>, Joan Didion<\/a>, Ernest Hemingway<\/a>, or P. G. Wodehouse<\/a> <\/li>\n

    Read The Paris Review<\/em> interviews for inspiration\u2014and be sure to send in your entries by July 22. Submit to contests@theparisreview.org. The winner will be chosen by the editors of the Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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