{"id":65956,"date":"2014-01-31T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=65956"},"modified":"2014-01-31T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:49:04","slug":"were-telling-you-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DSC_0277\"<\/a>

Photo: eefeewahfah, via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s<\/i><\/a> ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s <\/i>and The Paris Review<\/i> for just $75, a 20 percent savings on all the interviews, fiction, essays, art, poetry, and humor a discerning reader could want.<\/p>\n

The end of January grows nigh. Has the promise of the new year already lost its luster? Has your resolve faltered vis-\u00e0-vis exercise, temperance, or chastity? Don\u2019t fret. With this deal, you still have time\u2014not much, though\u2014to stoke the embers of hope and change in your life.<\/p>\n

Take it from us: we\u2019ve kept<\/a> our<\/a> resolutions<\/a>. And you can, too\u2014at least until the stroke of midnight, when February begins and our offer vanishes, like so many human ambitions, into the sands of time.<\/p>\n

Subscribe now!<\/a> You won\u2019t be sorry.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and The Paris Review for just $75, a 20 percent savings on all the interviews, fiction, essays, art, poetry, and humor a discerning reader could want. The end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[12439,2784,12440,10870],"class_list":["post-65956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-12439","tag-mcsweeneys","tag-new-years-resolution","tag-subscription-deals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLast Call for Our Subscription Deal with McSweeney\u2019s!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"679\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2014\",\"McSweeney's\",\"new year's resolution\",\"subscription deals\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Bulletin\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\",\"name\":\"Last Call for Our Subscription Deal with McSweeney\u2019s!\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\",\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dan Piepenbring\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Last Call for Our Subscription Deal with McSweeney\u2019s!","description":"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time by Dan Piepenbring","og_description":"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":679,"height":487,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dan Piepenbring","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dan Piepenbring","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/"},"author":{"name":"Dan Piepenbring","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8"},"headline":"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time","datePublished":"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/"},"wordCount":167,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg","keywords":["2014","McSweeney's","new year's resolution","subscription deals"],"articleSection":["Bulletin"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/","name":"Last Call for Our Subscription Deal with McSweeney\u2019s!","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg","datePublished":"2014-01-31T20:49:04+00:00","description":"January 31, 2014 \u2013 Last call! Our subscription deal with McSweeney\u2019s ends at midnight tonight. As you now probably know by heart, you can get a full year of McSweeney\u2019s and","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/last-call.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/were-telling-you-for-the-last-time\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"We\u2019re Telling You for the Last Time"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8","name":"Dan Piepenbring","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dan Piepenbring"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65956"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}