{"id":45424,"date":"2013-01-28T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=45424"},"modified":"2013-01-29T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T07:44:13","slug":"richard-g-stern-19282013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/richard-g-stern-19282013\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard G. Stern, 1928&ndash;2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RichardStern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45428\" title=\"richard_stern\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RichardStern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RichardStern.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RichardStern-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We mourn the loss of Richard Stern, a lion of the literary world whose name was little known outside the den. He established himself as a nurturing teacher and a powerful force in literature at the University of Chicago, where, while writing, he taught English and creative writing from 1955 until his retirement in 2001. In Stern&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/25\/books\/richard-g-stern-a-writers-writer-is-dead-at-84.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em> obituary<\/a>, Philip Roth recalls meeting Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Norman Mailer in Stern&#8217;s U of C classroom. During his tenure at the school, Stern was awarded the Medal of Merit for the Novel by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>He published fiction, short stories, and essays prolifically, appearing in <em>The Paris Review<\/em> four times, across a span of almost thirty years. The second of these occurrences, from Issue 66 (Summer 1976), was the story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3717\/aurelia-frequenzia-reveals-the-heart-and-mind-of-the-man-of-destiny-richard-stern\">Aurelia Frequenzia Reveals the Heart and Mind of the Man of Destiny<\/a>,\u201d a brief and disorienting vignette about the interview of a mysterious Vietnamese ex-politician by a French journalist. Marked by a strong current of anxiety and paranoia, tension builds and builds until an abrupt and surprising resolution. It is representative of the work he shared with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mourn the loss of Richard Stern, a lion of the literary world whose name was little known outside the den. He established himself as a nurturing teacher and a powerful force in literature at the University of Chicago, where, while writing, he taught English and creative writing from 1955 until his retirement in 2001. 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