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The Paris Review
62 White Street
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 343-1333 Fax: (212) 343-1988
E-mail: info@theparisreview.org
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: Year-round Response time: 3-6 months Payment: yes Contests: yes (se website) ISSN: 0031-2037 Founded: 1953 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity, Small Changes, Canongate Books (International) Average pages: 190 Copy price: $12 Subscription (Individuals): $40/year Subscription (Institutions): $59/year
Publisher’s description: The Paris Review is a quarterly literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and the Writers at Work series of author interviews. Founded in Paris in 1953, the magazine published the early work of such writers as Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, and T. Coraghessan Boyle. More recently, an excerpt from Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides appeared in the Review’s pages, as have stories by Rick Moody, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Lorrie Moore, Jeanette Winterson, and Ann Patchett, Joseph Heller, and Gish Jen.
The Review’s Writers at Work interviews offer some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature. Among more than two hundred and fifty interviewees are E. M. Forster, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Norman Mailer, W. H. Auden, Joan Didion, Elizabeth Bishop, Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, and Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, and Stephen King.
In March of 2005, a year and a half after the death of legendary founder George Plimpton, Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review. Since then, Gourevitch has revitalized the quarterly, building a new editorial and business team and recommitting it to publishing the most original new literature from America and abroad. The magazine was nominated for two 2007 National Magazine Awards, in Feature Writing and Photojournalism, and won for Jonas Bendiksen’s photo portfolio “Kibera,” published in the Winter 2006 issue.