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Maxine Groffsky
For the first two decades of its existence (1953–73), The Paris Review was a transatlantic operation. It was printed in Europe. It was distributed mainly in America. And it was edited in both places, by George Plimpton— who moved back to New York in
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Isabella Hammad
It happened like this. A week after the Six-Day War, Sam walked to the eastern bank of the Jordan River. He was working as a counselor that summer near Karameh, at a day camp for boys. Although the fighting occurred further upstream, camp activities
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Ann Beattie
I’d started to visit Olivia more often because it was obvious she was lonely. The ALS lady who’d been moved to Hopkins had been Aunt Olivia’s closest friend, leaving aside Merton Hillstead, who actually went home. Even the friendly paperboy who somet
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MALCOLM GLADWELL & MICHAEL LEWIS
Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Lewis met in the early nineties, when both were reporting for the New Republic. Since then, they have gone on to write some of the most popular nonfiction of our day—books that use personal stories to illustrate complex i
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Sigrid Nunez
During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khme
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Duncan Hannah
September 1970. Eisenhower High School. I can’t get into the teen spirit of the Hopkins High pep rally. Purple Power! Youth Fever! Sieg Heil! Makes me sick. I put out a comic book with some other freaks that is sold in the hallways for a dime. The Da
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Four Poems
Four deer stood poised down in a valley as the train passed by, like four artworks in a museum, framed in the rectangular windows of the train, a tableau vivant that hardly changes no matter how many times the train passes, heading north or heading s
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Antonio Di Benedetto
They’ll have to hire a girl. The father knows why. The daughter will no longer tolerate any housework that gets hands dirty. She gives excuses the father doesn’t believe, but he doesn’t argue. After he lost the use of his legs, the daughter learned t
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David Sedaris
Our house on Emerald Isle, The Sea Section, is divided down the middle, and has an E beside one front door and a W beside the other. The east side is ruled by Hugh, and the bedroom we share is on the top floor. It opens onto a deck that overlooks the
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Contributors
ESTHER ALLEN’s most recent translation, Antonio Di Benedetto’s Zama (1956), was published last year. ANN BEATTIE ’s most recent collection is The Accomplished Guest. ANTONIO DI BENEDETTO (1922–86) has been called the most original writer in twentieth
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Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au- Prince in 1953. After his father, a former mayor of the city, was forced into exile in 1959, Dany was raised by his grandmother in the coastal village of Petit-Goâve. He returned to Port-au-Prince five years later
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Acknowledges
1919 Investment Counsel • David M. Adler • A?sop • Alfred A. Knopf • Theresa Gavin & Mark Almeida • Peggy & Keith Anderson • The Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation • Jeff Antebi • Gale Arnold • R. Scott Asen • Debbie & Mark Attanasio • Amanda Urb

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