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.
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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.
Cultivating people can be arduous,
With results as uncertain as weather.
Try oysters, meerkats, turnips, mice.
My mouse field was a triumph of
Cultivation—pink noses poking
Through quilts of loam, scampering
In the furrows—until the falling
Dwarves (it was that time of year)
Began landing on my field. Fear for
Its harvest had me down on hands
And knees muttering, Not here,
My nails clawed at tangles of fat
Dwarves crushing mouse families.
Then, unbelievably, it was over.