{"id":81976,"date":"2015-01-23T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81976"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T02:40:00","slug":"show-your-affection-with-vintage-issues-of-the-paris-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/show-your-affection-with-vintage-issues-of-the-paris-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Your Affection with Vintage Issues of The Paris Review<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s not easy to describe matters of the heart. Even Shakespeare sometimes got it wrong: \u201cLove is a smoke,\u201d he wrote in Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, as if we\u2019re all human cigarettes, burning ourselves down with romance.<\/p>\n

But Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a> is mere weeks away, and if we want to make a good impression, it behooves us to use our words\u2014our best words. Fortunately, The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s archive is full of writers, more than sixty years\u2019 worth, who know all the right things to say.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re offering a special Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a> box set: choose any three issues from our archive<\/a>, and at no extra charge, we\u2019ll package them in the lovely gift box you see above, including a card featuring William P\u00e8ne du Bois\u2019s 1953 sketch of the Place de la Concorde. (You may have seen it on the title page of the quarterly, or in the footer of our Web site.) Then they go straight to the home of your significant other.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find all the details here<\/a>\u2014orders begin shipping next week, and delivery before Valentine\u2019s Day is guaranteed if you order by February 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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