{"id":54079,"date":"2013-06-07T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=54079"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:37:31","slug":"stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0153900c9630970b-800wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54084\" alt=\"6a00d8341c630a53ef0153900c9630970b-800wi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0153900c9630970b-800wi.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0153900c9630970b-800wi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0153900c9630970b-800wi-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friend Toby Barlow has written a novel, set in Paris in the 1950s, in which an expat literary magazine gets embroiled in a CIA plot. Naturally the whole thing is fiction \u2026 or is it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsgworkinprogress.com\/2013\/06\/george-the-gentlemanly-ghost\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> Barlow describes the genesis of<em> Babayaga<\/em> and his valiant attempts to erect a statue to our founding editor, George Plimpton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Toby Barlow has written a novel, set in Paris in the 1950s, in which an expat literary magazine gets embroiled in a CIA plot. Naturally the whole thing is fiction \u2026 or is it? 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