{"id":71755,"date":"2014-05-23T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=71755"},"modified":"2014-05-23T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:25:25","slug":"the-paris-review-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/the-paris-review-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Paris Review<\/i>, 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/21-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-71386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/21-2-626x1024.jpg\" alt=\"21 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/21-2-626x1024.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/21-2-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/21-2.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s the last day to claim your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/21\" target=\"_blank\">our twenty-first issue<\/a>, published in the spring of 1959.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate American Masters\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/george-plimpton\/film-plimpton-starring-george-plimpton-as-himself\/2946\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself<\/em><\/a>\u2014a documentary about our late, great founder George Plimpton\u2014<em>The Paris Review<\/em> is giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">all new subscribers<\/a> this remarkable issue, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4738\/the-art-of-poetry-no-1-t-s-eliot\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with T.\u2009S. Eliot<\/a>, the very first in our Art of Poetry series; fiction from Plimpton pals Alexander Trocchi and Terry Southern; poems by Ted Hughes, Robert Bly, and Louis Simpson; and a special portfolio of \u201cArtists on Long Island\u201d including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Larry Rivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a> and we\u2019ll send you a copy of your own.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. residents can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/george-plimpton\/film-plimpton-starring-george-plimpton-as-himself\/2946\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself<\/em><\/a> in its entirety online, courtesy of PBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s the last day to claim your copy of our twenty-first issue, published in the spring of 1959. To celebrate American Masters\u2019s Plimpton! 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