{"id":92789,"date":"2015-12-10T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92789"},"modified":"2015-12-11T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:55:30","slug":"favorites-from-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/favorites-from-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorites from the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fact: nearly every one of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/back-issues\">the 214 back issues in our archive<\/a>, going all the back to 1953, is available for purchase\u2014and they make great last-minute gifts. We\u2019re recommending few of our favorites: the undisputed classics, the oddities, the sleeper hits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/79.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/79.jpg\" alt=\"79\" width=\"600\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/79.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/79-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/79-627x1024.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Writers at Work interview with Rebecca West (Q: \u201cAre there any advantages at all in being a woman and a writer?\u201d A: \u201cNone whatsoever.\u201d); fiction by Faulker and Gass; an epistolary squabble between Laura (Riding) Jackson, Martha Gellhorn, Stephen Spender, and the ghost of Yeats; work by thirty-eight poets, including Brainard, Sexton, Creeley, Schuyler, Baraka, and Swenson, and much more\u2014there\u2019s nothing not to love in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/79\" target=\"_blank\">the double-size twenty-fifth-anniversary issue from Spring 1981<\/a>. And, perhaps best of all (which is saying a lot), issue 79 contains \u201cThe Paris Review Sketchbook,\u201d a hundred-plus-page, mischievous oral history of the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>\u2019s first quarter century: \u201cLiterary magazine people never work. They spend hours on end playing pinball machines in caf\u00e9s.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tpr-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tpr-20.jpg\" alt=\"TPR-20\" width=\"600\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tpr-20.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tpr-20-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tpr-20-620x1024.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0no. 20<\/a> would probably top my list based on its contents alone: the original publication of Philip Roth\u2019s\u00a0<em>Goodbye, Columbus<\/em>; a portfolio of drawings by Marc Chagall; poetry by James Wright and Louis Simpson. But then there\u2019s the cover (by Tom Keogh, an early and frequent art contributor) and the table of contents illustration (by Lars Bo)\u2014both of which seem to me timeless and ineffably elegant. \u2014<strong>Stephen Andrew Hiltner<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/178.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/178.jpg\" alt=\"178\" width=\"600\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/178.jpg 972w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/178-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/178-709x1024.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The office is fiercely divided over the electrifying purple-and-yellow cover to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-178\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 178, from Spring 2006<\/a>. Some of us find it endearingly outr\u00e9; others shudder at the sight of it. (Our assistant editor just saw it sitting on my desk and called it \u201chorrifying.\u201d) Personally, I think it\u2019s the best cover in the history of the magazine. In addition to that color scheme, which I can only describe as \u201crad,\u201d it\u00a0features Laura Albert, otherwise known as JT LeRoy, in an adolescent yearbook photo, wearing a shirt that says \u201cI want to be me!\u201d I can relate. Nathaniel Rich\u2019s interview with LeRoy is fascinating (and unavailable online). \u201cI stayed at home and called hotlines,\u201d she says, talking about how she spent her free time as a teen. \u201cI always called as a boy, telling stories. It\u2019s not like I had the desire to be transgendered, but I wouldn\u2019t pray at night for a normal, happy family, or even to be thin\u2014I would pray, God, let me wake up as a boy. That was salvation for me. That was where the power lay, and that\u2019s what I became.\u201d \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/117.jpg\" alt=\"117\" width=\"600\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/117.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/117-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/117-619x1024.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite issue, hands down, is <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-117\" target=\"_blank\">117, from Winter 1990<\/a>, which features cover art by Mike Kelley. It also has a debut by one Jeffrey Eugenides: \u201cThe Virgin Suicides.\u201d All those restless details about the Lisbon sister\u2019s stuff, \u201cof bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals torn to shreds by the passions of the girls,\u201d are echoed perfectly in Kelley\u2019s cover: a rejected-looking pillow.\u00a0\u00a0\u2014<strong>Jessica Calderon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/198.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/198.jpg\" alt=\"198\" width=\"600\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/198.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/198-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/198-671x1024.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his Art of Fiction interview, Dennis Cooper thoroughly explains why he thinks \u201crimming is the most charismatic sex act\u201d: and, boy, does he explain in detail. Online, his interview still sees a steady trickle of visitors referred by salacious porn blogs, but it\u2019s a different animal in print\u2014which makes <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/back-issues\/products\/the-paris-review-no-198-fall-2011\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 198<\/a> one of my favorites, past or present. \u2014<strong>Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/88.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/88.jpg\" alt=\"88\" width=\"600\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/88.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/88-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/88-629x1024.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After putting the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/back-issues\/products\/the-paris-review-no-215-winter-2015\">latest issue<\/a>\u00a0to bed, I\u2019ve been cozying up with our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/88\">Summer 1983 issue<\/a>. The two complement each other nicely: for our new interview with editor Gordon Lish, there\u2019s an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3059\/the-art-of-fiction-no-76-raymond-carver\">Raymond Carver<\/a>, whose writing Lish \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6423\/the-art-of-editing-no-2-gordon-lish\">fuck[ed] around with<\/a>\u201d; for the new story from Lydia Davis, there\u2019s an older one, her first in the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>\u00a0in fact, called \u201cBreak It Down\u201d (a favorite of mine). \u2014<strong>Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: nearly every one of the 214 back issues in our archive, going all the back to 1953, is available for purchase\u2014and they make great last-minute gifts. We\u2019re recommending few of our favorites: the undisputed classics, the oddities, the sleeper hits. 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