Sadie Stein
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You’ve Got (Chain) Mail
What do Amish Friendship Bread, poetry and chain letters have in common? Sadie Stein opened her inbox the other day to find an email about a poetry chain, she writes at the Paris Review. Although participating in the chain left…
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You Are Fated to Sleep
Sadie Stein makes the worst coffee, or so she says in the Paris Review. Her coffee is always “awful in a different way,” sometimes too bitter, and at other times, too weak. Stein reflects on her childhood love of Sleeping Beauty:…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Does Othello
In honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday a couple days ago, the Paris Review posted some audio clips of him reading passages from Keats and Shakespeare. “While he may not recite like a trained Shakespearean, his reading is clear, emotive, and…