{"id":77127,"date":"2014-09-22T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=77127"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:20:29","slug":"double-the-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/22\/double-the-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Double the Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antrim-lerner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antrim-lerner.jpg\" alt=\"Antrim-Lerner\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antrim-lerner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antrim-lerner-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York: this week, you can catch our editor, Lorin Stein, in conversation with two great writers, at two different independent bookstores, on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p>First, on Wednesday at seven thirty, he\u2019ll talk to Donald Antrim at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlightbookstore.com\/event\/donald-antrim-lorin-stein\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn\u2019s Greenlight Bookstore<\/a>, about Antrim\u2019s new story collection, <em>The Emerald Light in the Air<\/em>: \u201cNo one writes more eloquently about the male crack-up and the depths of loneliness,\u201d says <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, \u201cthan Donald Antrim; the stories in <em>The Emerald Light in the Air<\/em>, hopscotching between the surreal and ordinary, comic and heartbreaking, are dazzling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Thursday at seven, <a href=\"http:\/\/mcnallyjackson.com\/event\/1004-ben-lerner-conversation-lorin-stein\" target=\"_blank\">join us at McNally Jackson<\/a>, where Lorin and Ben Lerner will discuss the latter\u2019s new novel, <em>10:04<\/em>, which Maggie Nelson has called \u201ca generous, provocative, ambitious Chinese box of a novel \u2026 a near-perfect piece of literature, affirmative of both life and art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: this week, you can catch our editor, Lorin Stein, in conversation with two great writers, at two different independent bookstores, on two separate occasions. 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