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Lorin Stein has been named the new editor of The Paris Review. Click here to read the press release.
4/1 André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun read at NYU.
4/13 The 2010 Spring Revel will honor Philip Roth. Click here for details.
NEW INTERVIEWS BOX SET

Click here to get the four-volume box set of The Paris Review Interviews series.
The Paris Review is looking for new writers. Click here to check out our submission guidelines.
IN MEMORIAM:
Barry Hannah
(1942–2010)
Click here to read his Art of Fiction interview.
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| NEW WINTER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW
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Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction.
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An interview with Mary Karr: In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.
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Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.
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A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.
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New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.
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BENJAMIN PERCY, ME VS. ANIMALS
Click here to listen to Benjamin Percy read his memoir from the Winter 2009 issue.
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FROM THE NEW ISSUE
Honest-to-God Color, God Said, for Artists
Marianne Boruch
Honest-to-god color, god said, for artists.
But first, graveyards, to grind the human femur
in secret, for bone black. And cuttlefish
for sepia, ingenious spray when they
fear things, which is mostly in that water.
For blue, miniature wars to come, pilgrimages,
and rapes some will consider a hobby.
The trade routes: mules, slaves bent low with cobalt
or lapis. And yellow? From piss, out of cows eating
only mango leaves. That will be rumor, little dried cakes
of it. What color am I? thought god, just past
the ice age. Let there be mirrors! though nothing
looked anything like god in them, world
coming to detail quickly, over eons. Leaf. Rattle.
Out of trees an owl frenzied, mobbed by five
shrieking crows. Red is blood-red eventually.
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