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The Paris Review accepts unsolicited submissions of prose in February, June, and October and unsolicited submissions of poetry in January, April, July, and October.Submissions are accepted via Submittable until we reach capacity, as well as by mail (see the instructions below).. All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished. Translations are welcome and should be ...

Oct 9, 2024 · Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; Normal People to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda; Beautiful World, Where Are You to Henry James’s The Golden Bowl; and Intermezzo to James Joyce’s Ulysses.But while Rooney is delightfully conversant in the history of the novel, it is not, she says, her first thought ...

Jan 3, 2025 · Peter Szendy’s For an Ecology of Images (Verso) discusses “iconomies” of images: picture markets, places where images circulate and compete economically. It includes an extended commentary on William Hogarth’s curious 1745 etching The Battle of the Pictures, reproduced above:. The scene in The Battle of the Pictures is that of the auction market where one seeks—sometimes in ...

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The Paris Review Podcast returns on November 15 with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; …

Apr 10, 2024 · Rejection may be universal, but as plots go, it’s second-rate—all buildup and no closure, an inherent letdown. Stories are usually defined by progress: the development of events toward their conclusions, characters toward their fates, questions toward understanding, themes toward fulfillment.

Dec 20, 2024 · Colored Television by Danzy Senna: among its subjects (not in order of importance) are LA, the vagaries of a writer’s life, and race—often in terms of a word that, coming from New Orleans, I am deeply familiar with, but which I thought I was not allowed to use. Until Danzy Senna said it was OK. More than OK. She prefers it to any less specific word.

Oct 25, 2024 · The Canadian writer Sam Shelstad’s third book, The Cobra and the Key, is a funny and charming satire of writing advice and the people who give it.The book is in the form of a writing manual, and its prologue begins: Imagine you are standing in a gymnasium with numerous wooden chests spread out across the floor.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”