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Rowan Ricardo Phillips (photo: Sue Kwon) and Angela Flournoy (photo: LaToya T. Duncan)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hats off to our National Book Award nominees<\/a>\u2014Angela Flournoy, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jane Hirshfield\u2014all of whose books include pieces that first appeared in The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can read Angela\u2019s fiction and Rowan\u2019s poetry in our forthcoming collection of young writers, The Unprofessionals<\/a><\/em>, alongside seminal works by Ben Lerner, Ottessa Moshfegh, Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and others whose voices have already helped define a generation in American letters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Preorder now<\/a> and get the anthology of the year for just $12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hats off to our National Book Award nominees\u2014Angela Flournoy, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jane Hirshfield\u2014all of whose books include pieces that first appeared in The Paris Review. 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