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Our Summer issue—featuring interviews with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Sigrid Nunez, prose by Esther Yi and Rachel B. Glaser (@Candle_Face), poetry by Chard deNiord, Jeet Thayil, and Sylvia Legris, and art by Otis Houston Jr.—is here. https://t.co/EUGylJCU0P

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“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are” —Ray Bradbu… https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/ray-bradbury-the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury

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“My first real lover was dumb, virile, hilarious—I didn’t trust a word he said. Certainly nothing he recommended. This is why, for years, I stayed away from his favorite book, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Sophie Dess for the Review’s Review: https://t.co/4fq42iVYin

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RT @MichaelTondre: An abridged version of my intro to Upton Sinclair’s Oil! appeared just today in The Paris Review. Really happy for it (!) https://t.co/i3twNT6iNT

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“The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.” —Marilynne Robinson https://t.co/7wBZYfYxLh

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The final episode of the podcast is here: listen to a reenactment of Joan Didion’s Art of Fiction interview, @Bud_Smith’s “Violets,” @jerichobrown’s “Hero,” and Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s “The Trick Is to Pretend” as read by @phoebe_bridgers. … https://t.co/UN8j3M9Ed5

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“When writers experience things, they’re not really experiencing them … They’re always holding back and wondering what the significance of it is, or wondering how they’d do it on the page.” —Martin Amis https://t.co/WAouGobMMS

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“The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.” —Derek Walcott https://t.co/eAeuSvtmch

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“The novels also form part of a second canon: the growing body of literature on Murray’s neighborhood, a place of historical significance in its own right. That neighborhood is known as Africatown.” Nick Tabor and Kern M. Jackson on Albert Murray. https://t.co/V37IkBjBL0

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"At the start of Elif Batuman’s Either/Or, the narrator asks a simple question: What is 'good' fiction?" @thereal_ckj on Elif Batuman's new novel "Either/Or" for The Review's Review. Both reviews this week discuss 1996-centric art work: https://t.co/xFY5Zd0aFg