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22-832: The Plimpton Prize is an annual award of $ 10,000 given by The Paris Review to a previously unpublished or emerging author who has written a work of fiction that was recently published in its publication. The award was named in honor of longtime editor of The Paris Review , George Plimpton , who died in 2003. The Plimpton Prize is funded by Sarah Plimpton, his widow, and Terry McDonell , president of The Paris Review Board of Directors. The Paris Review The Review ' s "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ezra Pound , Ernest Hemingway , T. S. Eliot , Jorge Luis Borges , Ralph Ellison , William Faulkner , Thornton Wilder , Robert Frost , Pablo Neruda , William Carlos Williams , and Vladimir Nabokov , among hundreds of others. Literary critic Joe David Bellamy wrote that

44-646: A collaborator, for his spying activities. In a May 27, 2008 interview with Charlie Rose , Matthiessen stated that he "invented The Paris Review as cover" for his CIA activities. Matthiessen maintained that the Review was not part of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an organization used by the CIA to sponsor an array of literary magazines; but the record shows The Paris Review benefited financially from selling article reprints to CCF magazines. Under Gourevitch's leadership,

66-416: A redesign of the magazine's print edition and its website, both of which were met with critical acclaim. In September 2010, the Review made available online its entire archive of interviews. On December 6, 2017, Stein resigned amid an internal investigation into his sexual misconduct toward women at the workplace. In October 2012, The Paris Review published an anthology, Object Lessons, comprising

88-404: A selection of 20 short stories from The Paris Review' s archive, each with an introduction by a contemporary author. Contributors include Jeffrey Eugenides (with an introduction to a story by Denis Johnson ), Lydia Davis (with an introduction to a story by Jane Bowles ), and Ali Smith (with an introduction to a story by Lydia Davis ). On October 8, 2012, the magazine launched its app for

110-480: Is an annual gala held in celebration of American writers and writing. The Revel "brings together leading figures and patrons of American arts and letters from throughout New York to pay tribute to distinguished writers at different stages of their careers". Proceeds from the Spring Revel go directly toward The Paris Review Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by the co-founders in 2000 to ensure

132-618: Is an emerging writer with a monthly column, "Detroit Archives". The series explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit . "The interviews in The Paris Review […] are about as canonical, in our literary universe, as spoken words can be. They long ago set the standard […] for what well-brewed conversation should sound like on the page." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times An interview with E. M. Forster , an acquaintance of Plimpton's from his days at Kings College at

154-523: The Review began incorporating more nonfiction pieces and, for the first time, began regularly publishing a photography spread. A four-volume set of Paris Review interviews was published by Picador from 2006 to 2009. Gourevitch announced his departure in the fall of 2009, citing a desire to concentrate more fully on his creative writing. Lorin Stein was named editor of The Paris Review in April 2010. He oversaw

176-466: The University of Cambridge , was the first in a long series of author interviews, now known as the "Writers at Work" series. In 1964, The Paris Review initiated a series of prints and posters by contemporary artists with the goal of establishing an ongoing relationship between the worlds of writing and art — Drue Heinz , then publisher of The Paris Review , shared credit with Jane Wilson for initiating

198-698: The iPad and iPhone . Developed by Atavist, the app includes access to new issues, back issues, and archival collections from its fiction and poetry sections—along with the complete interview series and the Paris Review Daily. In November 2015, The Paris Review published its first anthology of new writing since 1964, The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review, including writing by well-established authors like Zadie Smith , Ben Lerner , and John Jeremiah Sullivan , as well as emerging writers like Emma Cline , Ottessa Moshfegh , Alexandra Kleeman , and Angela Flournoy . In late 2021, for

220-723: The Hadada in 2019. Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group . Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 by publisher Sonny Mehta as a literary imprint of Pan Books with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback editions only. In 1990, Picador started publishing its own hardcovers. Picador in

242-656: The Seine from 1956 to 1957. The Café de Tournon in the Rue de Tournon on the Rive Gauche was the meeting place for staffers and writers, including du Bois, Plimpton, Matthiessen, Alexander Trocchi , Christopher Logue , and Eugene Walter . The first floor and basement rooms in Plimpton's 72nd Street apartment became the headquarters of The Paris Review when the magazine moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. The magazine's circulation

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264-404: The UK continues to publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from around the world, including works by former British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy , Ted Hughes Award -winner Kae Tempest , and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart . Picador has also published commercial bestsellers such as Jessie Burton 's The Miniaturist and Adam Kay 's This is Going to Hurt . In the summer of 2018,

286-483: The exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines. […] I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good. The Review ' s founding editors include Humes, Matthiessen, Plimpton, William Pène du Bois , Thomas Guinzburg and John P. C. Train . The first publisher

308-634: The fifth issue. The magazine was also among the first to recognize the work of Jack Kerouac with the publication of his short story, "The Mexican Girl", in 1955. Other works making their first appearance in The Paris Review include Italo Calvino 's Last Comes the Raven , Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus , Donald Barthelme 's Alice , Jim Carroll 's The Basketball Diaries , Matthiessen's Far Tortuga , Jeffrey Eugenides 's The Virgin Suicides , and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections . Aisha Sabatini Sloan

330-645: The first issue with Stokes as editor-in-chief and Na Kim as art director, the journal was given a redesign by Matt Willey of Pentagram that hearkened back to the look that it had in the late 1960s and early 1970s: a minimalist style, a cover with a sans serif font and a great deal of white space, a smaller trim size, and paper that was physically softer. The Review has published several emerging writers who have gone to notable careers, including Adrienne Rich , V.S. Naipaul , Philip Roth , T. Coraghessan Boyle , Mona Simpson , Edward P. Jones , and Rick Moody . Selections from Samuel Beckett 's novel Molloy appeared in

352-466: The future of The Paris Review . The 2010 Spring Revel took place on April 13, 2010 and presented Philip Roth with the Hadada. The 2011 Spring Revel took place on April 12, 2011, chaired by Yves-André Istel and Kathleen Begala. Robert Redford presented the Hadada to James Salter . The 2011 Revel also featured Ann Beattie presenting the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and Fran Lebowitz presenting

374-453: The inaugural Terry Southern Prize for Humor. In 2012, Robert Silvers received the Hadada. In 2013, it was Paula Fox . In 2014, Frederick Seidel received the prize. In 2015, it was Norman Rush . In 2016, Errol Morris presented Lydia Davis with the Hadada and 2017 Edward Hirsch presented Richard Howard with the Hadada. In 2018, Joy Williams received the prize from John Waters . Fran Lebowitz presented Deborah Eisenberg with

396-470: The series was "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world." The headquarters of The Paris Review moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. An editorial statement by William Styron in the inaugural Spring 1953 issue described the magazine's intended aim: The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to

418-544: The series. In the half century since its inception, the series has featured notable New York artists of the postwar decades, including Louise Bourgeois , Willem de Kooning , David Hockney , Helen Frankenthaler , Keith Haring , Robert Indiana , Jimmy Ernst , Alex Katz , Ellsworth Kelly , Sol LeWitt , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Motherwell , Louise Nevelson , Claes Oldenburg , Robert Rauschenberg , Larry Rivers , James Rosenquist , Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol . The series, suspended after George Plimpton's death in 2003,

440-487: Was Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan . Du Bois, the magazine's first art editor, designed the iconic Paris Review eagle to include both American and French significance: an American eagle holding a pen and wearing a Phrygian cap . The magazine's first office was located in a small room of the publishing house Éditions de la Table ronde . Other notable locations of The Paris Review include a Thames River grain carrier anchored on

462-477: Was 9,700 in 1989. Brigid Hughes took over as editor following Plimpton's death in 2003; her last issue was March 2005. She was succeeded by Philip Gourevitch in spring 2005. In January 2007, an article published by The New York Times supported the claim that founding editor Matthiessen was in the Central Intelligence Agency , but reported that the magazine was used as a cover, rather than

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484-641: Was relaunched in 2012 with a print by Donald Baechler . Three prizes are awarded annually by the editors of The Paris Review : the Paris Review Hadada , the Plimpton Prize , and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor . Winning selections are celebrated at the annual Spring Revel . No application form is required. Instead, winners are selected from the stories and poems published the previous year in The Paris Review . The Paris Review Spring Revel

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