{"id":64352,"date":"2014-01-06T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=64352"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:06:56","slug":"our-new-years-resolution-spend-more-time-with-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/our-new-years-resolution-spend-more-time-with-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Year\u2019s Resolution: Spend More Time with the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As truisms go, \u201cThey grow up so fast\u201d is a doozy. Take it from us. A mere fifteen years ago, when <em>The Paris Review<\/em> was a sprightly forty-five, we looked on in wonder as <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> took its first steps in this world, a mock eighteenth-century gazette from the outskirts of Silicon Valley. At moments we glimpsed a younger, friendlier version of ourselves, if we\u2019d been born in a small nonsmoking city where people did graphic design. We laughed at their jokes. We admired the typesetting. We even paid a couple of visits to their pirate store.<\/p>\n<p>What can we say? Time did its thing. We remained on the East Coast, <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> on the West. As the years passed, we begged off various ballet recitals, countless soccer games, and at least one fiction reading that had an acoustic guitar component. We were an absentee elder sister. No more! With a new year upon us and <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> entering its headstrong teenage phase, we want a second chance: at the ripe old age of sixty, we\u2019re spending more time with the kid.<\/p>\n<p>All month long, we\u2019re offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscription deal<\/a> in conjunction with <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>: you can get both magazines for just $75, a 20 percent savings. Because it\u2019s 2014, and you don\u2019t have to make the same mistakes we did. You can have it all: the interviews, fiction, poetry, art, essays, humor, and translations that make us proud to be in the same business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As truisms go, \u201cThey grow up so fast\u201d is a doozy. Take it from us. 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