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\"\u201cParis<\/a>

\u201cParis Review,\u201d by Anthony Russo. (Click to enlarge.)<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday\u00a0we announced a contest<\/a>\u00a0based on a recent archival discovery:\u00a0a decades-old illustration, by Anthony Russo,\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0office packed\u00a0with\u00a0writers. To our surprise, after more than three hundred entries, we have only\u00a0one<\/em> winner: David DeJong<\/strong>, a copywriter from Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The writers\u00a0are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. Joan Didion
2. Milan Kundera
3. Samuel Beckett
4. Tama Janowitz
5. Truman Capote
6. Saul Bellow
7. Kurt Vonnegut
8. William Styron
9. Norman Mailer
10. William S. Burroughs
11. John Updike<\/p>\n

Congratulations, David! And thanks to all those who participated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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