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2/22 Mary Karr and Philip Gourevitch at Joe's Pub.

4/13 The 2010 Spring Revel will honor Philip Roth.
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Philip Gourevitch will be stepping down as editor of The Paris Review in April 2010. Click here to read the press release, and here to read an article about his five years as editor of the magazine.

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NEW WINTER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW

Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction.

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.”

Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.

A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.

New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.

Plus Benjamin Percy's encounters with the animal world; a folio of photographs by Massimo Vitali; winter poetry by Marianne Boruch, Cathy Park Hong, Dorothea Tanning; and more.

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FROM THE NEW ISSUE

The Art of Memoir No. 1
Mary Karr

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

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