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Nicole Eisenman, Black Pepper Marlboro<\/i>, ca. 1993, ink and mixed media on paper, 22″ x 30″. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. \u00a9 Nicole Eisenman.<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to the MacArthur Foundation\u2019s Class of 2015<\/a>, four of whom you can find in the pages of The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and here on the Daily<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/strong>, who wrote in praise of Jennifer Grotz\u2019s poem \u201cPoppies\u201d<\/a> for us a few years ago: \u201cGrotz writes of our constant desire to tame the world, and even the righteousness of that desire \u2026 She writes of the anguish that ultimately comes from trying \u2026 and then, finally, our sadness at the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in our new Fall issue<\/a> you may have noticed Nicole Eisenman<\/strong>\u2019s painting Black Pepper Marlboro<\/em>, part of a portfolio curated by Eileen Myles. \u201cI think of Nicole Eisenman running straight out from childhood, yelling,\u201d Myles writes: \u201cShe\u2019s the unusual female who isn\u2019t at all broken, but loves brokenness. This is her kingdom, all heraldry, the clan of advertising and products bleeding into each other, raucously, in our heads.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also featured photographs from LaToya Ruby Frazier<\/strong>\u2019s first monograph, The Notion of Family<\/em><\/a>, which documents the decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, alongside the hardships of Frazier\u2019s family, and which, as Jane Harris writes, \u201cgilds its often grim truths with the hope of resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last, congrats to Ben Lerner<\/strong>, who\u2019s contributed several stories (\u201cFalse Spring<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSpecimen Days<\/a>\u201d) and<\/a> poems<\/a> to the quarterly. His work will also appear in our new anthology,\u00a0The Unprofessionals<\/a><\/em>, where he\u2019s the only author to be represented as both a poet and a fiction writer. You can preorder the book now at a 25 percent discount<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

To these four and all the new fellows, a heartfelt chapeau\u00a0<\/i>from all of us at the\u00a0Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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