{"id":97608,"date":"2016-05-02T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97608"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:27:07","slug":"its-back-the-paris-review-commencement-gift-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/its-back-the-paris-review-commencement-gift-box\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Back: The Paris Review Commencement Gift Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grad2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97609\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-97609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grad2016.jpg\" alt=\"Grad2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grad2016.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grad2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grad2016-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that our founding editor George Plimpton was once called upon to give a commencement speech at Bennington College. Instead of bringing an armful of platitudes about inspiration and the future, he brought an armful of fireworks\u2014maybe more like a truckload of fireworks, actually. There was one for each graduate, each carefully labeled. Rather than intoning from behind a podium, Plimpton set off the fireworks one by one, shouting each graduate\u2019s name just before the rockets went screaming into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a gift for your graduate that isn\u2019t highly flammable and illegal in most states, try our <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/grad-gift-box\" target=\"_blank\">Commencement Gift Box<\/a>. It includes a one-year subscription to <em>The Paris Review<\/em>; a copy of\u00a0<em>The Unprofessionals<\/em>, our new anthology, featuring the\u00a0best young writers at work today; and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>two archival issues of\u00a0the magazine\u2014200 and 214\u2014in which James Salter, Eileen Myles, Robert Caro, Jane Smiley, and Luc Sante\u00a0share their memories of starting out as writers, with plenty of good advice for the graduate in your life.<\/p>\n<p>The boxes are available from now through the end of June. You\u2019ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/grad-gift-box\" target=\"_blank\">all the details here<\/a>\u2014order now. It\u2019s the next best thing to lighting something on fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-97610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"600\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed.png 728w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor has it that our founding editor George Plimpton was once called upon to give a commencement speech at Bennington College. Instead of bringing an armful of platitudes about inspiration and the future, he brought an armful of fireworks\u2014maybe more like a truckload of fireworks, actually. There was one for each graduate, each carefully labeled. 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