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Rumpus Book Club“There are many excellent stories that don’t interest me.”
“On Easter I signed up my first short story for the Paris Review. It’s by a young woman you’ve never heard of named April Ayers Lawson, and it’s an astonishment. All sex and brains and feeling. And it’s funny too. A minute before I read the story, I had no idea that such a thing existed. If I’d had a theme in mind for the issue, this story would almost certainly not have matched that theme. This is a long way of saying I’m looking for the best of the best, period—except I don’t really believe in The Best.”
More Intelligent Life chats with Lorin Stein, the new editor of the Paris Review.
(via PW)
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