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Attention, procrastinators! This is your last chance to get<\/a><\/em>\u00a0a free copy of our new anthology of emerging writers<\/a>, <\/em>The Unprofessionals. Want to learn more? See below\u00a0for a talk\u00a0with our editor, Lorin Stein, and contributors<\/em>\u00a0Emma Cline, Kristin Dombek, Cathy Park Hong, Ben Nugent, and Jana Prikryl. Thanks to BookCourt for letting us tape their conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Click\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I talk about The Unprofessionals<\/em>, two questions keep coming up. The first is why we decided, after more than fifty years, to put out a book\u2014specifically, a book of work by younger writers. The other question is why we called it\u00a0The Unprofessionals<\/em>. To be clear, it\u2019s not because we thought the writers in this book didn\u2019t know what they were doing. They do.<\/p>\n

The truth is, when my colleagues and I got ready\u00a0to relaunch The Paris Review<\/em> five years ago, we heard a lot of discouraging stuff from our friends and colleagues\u2014that print was on the way out, that literary magazines were irrelevant, that this was a rearguard action doomed to obvious and imminent failure. More troubling, at least to me, there was a quiet sense that the kind of stuff we were going to publish in the Review<\/em>\u2014short fiction, especially, but some essays and some poems\u2014that these were not really going concerns. That short fiction, especially, was a dead form.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, there could not have been a luckier time to relaunch a literary magazine. The burst of talent we\u2019ve seen in the last five years is like nothing since the midnineties. From our point of view, that was pure luck. But, as with\u00a0any large burst of talent, I think there is also a historical story we can tell about why it happened. To this observer, it seems that\u00a0we\u2019re starting to get used to living so much online. And that those of us who care about writing, especially from the point of view of the \u201cI,\u201d feel the need to take the \u201cI\u201d back from the professional realm, the realm of branding, of marketing. Henry James once said we\u2019re all of us novelists nowadays\u2014well, today\u00a0we\u2019re all marketers, too. Self-promotion has become a recreational activity. I think\u00a0the writers in this book, and more\u00a0generally the writers we publish in the Review<\/em>, have made a distinction\u00a0between the kind of writing that happens on the page, in private\u00a0between writer and reader, and the kind of public talking that we all engage in\u00a0every day, online. That\u2019s what the title is about.\u00a0At least that\u2019s what we\u00a0had in mind.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to ask the five contributors who are here tonight how they came to write their pieces. And if they want, they can say\u00a0what the title The Unprofessionals <\/em>means to them.<\/p>\n

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Ben Nugent (Fiction, \u201cGod<\/a>\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The accusation leveled at short stories is that they\u2019re essentially weapons you use to get tenure. When the form was considered dead, that was the reason. And so the title The Unprofessionals<\/em> seems like a kind of assertion for us short-story writers\u2014\u201cNo! We didn\u2019t do it just to get tenure, we promise.\u201d When I read this anthology I think, Okay, these are my allies\u2014if that\u2019s not too strong and militaristic a word. When I went to my M.F.A. program,\u00a0I felt like I was at war with a lot of the other fiction writers because they seemed to deny the beauty of the way people talk right now. Everything was like, This is in a foreign country, this is fifty years ago. And our professors were like that to a large degree, as well. I love this anthology because it redeems the language of contemporary American life.<\/p>\n

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Jana Prikryl (Poem, \u201cA Place as Good as Any\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun for\u00a0a poet to have your work in a collection with\u00a0other genres. That feels unusual to me\u2014to hear\u00a0those voices working in very different forms but having shared values, in a way. My poem took a curiously long time. It\u2019s called \u201cA Place as Good as Any,\u201d and it\u2019s literally a transcription of a dream I had, one of very few that I remembered completely intact, in all its convoluted detail. I wrote it down immediately, but then it was a series of many months\u2014I would say even a couple of years\u2014of figuring out how much formalism I wanted in the poem, and how much rhyme, and how much\u00a0I wanted it to be vernacular, to sort of hide the rhyme in it.<\/p>\n

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Cathy Park Hong (Poem, \u201cTrouble in Mind\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think all poets feel unprofessional all the time. That\u2019s why there are always these editorials about, Is poetry dead? It\u2019s so divorced from the market, and one way to define professionalism is to equate it with an actual career\u2014with a salary and so forth. You can\u2019t make any money out of poetry. I think that\u2019s one of its virtues.<\/p>\n

My contribution to The Unprofessionals<\/em> is one section of a series of poems. I was watching a lot of Richard Pryor\u00a0and\u00a0got obsessed with stand-up comedy. I was really interested in trying to incorporate stand-up into poetry. Pryor is a genius, but the reason he\u2019s a genius is that he uses comedy as a booby trap for what\u2019s terrifying about America and race. I get really frustrated with poetry because there\u2019s often\u00a0this politeness in\u00a0the way it treats race. I thought satire was a way into that. So I was using some of the motifs from stand-up, like alter egos and ventriloquizing. There are some John Berryman references in there, too\u2014it\u2019s my way of talking back at Berryman.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always an honor to be in an anthology, but especially an anthology like this one\u00a0that’s\u00a0trying to make a statement. It feels like you\u2019re part of a community, a generation. I really respect and love a lot of these poets, and some are even friends. It\u2019s great to have that solidarity.<\/p>\n

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Emma Cline (Fiction, \u201cMarion<\/a>\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to write about a tone or an atmosphere in northern California that I pick up on a lot\u2014that\u2019s where I\u2019m from. There\u2019s this weird undercurrent of darkness even though it\u2019s such a beautiful place, and that\u2019s where all the hippies ended up. There are always these yards with blue tarps covering things, and you never know what\u2019s under the blue tarps. Vans without tires. It was that kind of cruddiness I wanted to write about.<\/p>\n

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Kristin Dombek (Nonfiction, \u201cLetter from Williamsburg<\/a>\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Essays for me always come out of this dumb idea\u2014there are things that everybody says are different that are\u00a0actually really similar, or things that people say are totally similar that are\u00a0actually really different. In some sense I\u2019d been writing this essay\u00a0for many years. There was a part in the beginning\u2014about waking up and wanting to pray\u2014that I\u2019d written many years before. But I was trying to articulate something about the way that depressions and threesomes were really different. (Contrary to popular belief!) So\u00a0I was trying to write a love essay, but my lover left me in the middle of it, so then I said, Lorin, I can\u2019t finish it, and that\u2019s how I ended up finishing. He made me finish it.<\/p>\n

I read straight through The Unprofessionals<\/em>, and I really did have that\u00a0sense that Lorin describes of taking back the \u201cI\u201d from the Internet, somehow. I felt this heartening sense of comfort from being among\u00a0these writers. They\u2019re still speaking in the language that we live in, but they\u2019re slowing it down, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Through January 5, you\u2019ll receive a free copy of\u00a0<\/em>The Unprofessionals\u00a0with a one-year gift subscription<\/a> to\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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