{"id":88133,"date":"2015-07-24T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88133"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:33:26","slug":"next-tuesday-james-salters-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/next-tuesday-james-salters-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Tuesday: James Salter\u2019s Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19899\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/salter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19899\" class=\"wp-image-19899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/salter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/salter.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/salter-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lan Rys<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A memorial service for James Salter will be held at five <small>P.M. <\/small>on Tuesday, July 28, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GHJoc\" target=\"_blank\">Unitarian Church of All Souls<\/a>\u00a0in New York. All members of the public are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Salter, who died last month, was a longtime member of the <em>Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0family. His first published short story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4373\/sundays-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">Sundays<\/a>,\u201d appeared in <em>The Paris Review<\/em> no. 38, and he followed with four others (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4246\/am-strande-von-tanger-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">Am Strande von Tanger<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4018\/via-negativa-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">Via Negativa<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Cinema,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/234\/bangkok-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">Bangkok<\/a>\u201d); his third novel,\u00a0<em>A Sport and a Pastime<\/em>, was published by Paris Review Editions in 1967; his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1930\/the-art-of-fiction-no-133-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a> appeared in the magazine in 1993; and he won the Hadada Prize, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s lifetime-achievement award, in 2011\u2014where he announced to the admiring crowd, \u201cThis is my Stockholm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim will be missed by all of us at the <em>Review<\/em> and by his many <em>Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0colleagues from years past. We hope you\u2019ll join us\u2014and his family and many friends\u2014in celebrating his life at his memorial on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial service for James Salter will be held at five P.M. on Tuesday, July 28, at the Unitarian Church of All Souls\u00a0in New York. All members of the public are welcome to attend. Salter, who died last month, was a longtime member of the Paris Review\u00a0family. 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