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“Self-help wasn’t yet a cultural fixture when Bertrand Russell published ‘The Conquest of Happiness,’ in 1930. And in a way, it feels strange to classify the book in that genre.” What the staff and contributors of ‘The Paris Review’ recommend this week: https://t.co/3casyN5VsE

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“My mother, I suspect, had then wanted to be Joan Didion, her radiant and successful doppelgänger. On my fifteenth birthday, she gave me a copy of ‘Play It as It Lays,’ a book that exerted a scriptural pressure across the remainder of my adolescence.” https://t.co/8GvMv7ba2B

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"I blame The Favorite Game for the image of a sentient vibrator that drives a couple from their home, as well as a description of getting trapped in a writhing mass of young people at a political rally but failing to orgasm." — @nellzink on Leonard Cohen https://t.co/sP13rZUmZG

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“I felt ill after completing The Books of Jacob … I feared I’d destroyed a part of me that I would never recover.” —Olga Tokarczuk https://t.co/2JrKYzjLSP

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“I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.” —John Ashbery https://t.co/1jjtgRt5Xm

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Our Winter issue—featuring interviews with Gary Indiana and Annette Gordon-Reed, prose by Annie Baker, Emmanuel Carrère, and Sterling HolyWhiteMountain (@MrHWM), poetry by Tove Ditlevsen, Terrance Hayes, and @sallywenmao, and a cover by Rose Wylie—is here: https://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/238 https://t.co/His0Rq0aXV

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Each week, we unlock archival stories, poems, and interviews for our readers. Sign up for the Redux, and you’ll receive pieces by writers like Alice Munro, Derek Walcott, and Frank O’Hara straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. https://t.co/nzpitPGrVu https://t.co/ZKCPyQ42Hr

The Paris Review

Each week, we unlock archival stories, poems, and interviews for our readers. Sign up for the Redux, and you’ll receive pieces by writers like Alice Munro, Derek Walcott, and Frank O’Hara straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. https://t.co/nzpitPGrVu https://t.co/gzRgfEqXZm

The Paris Review

Each week, we unlock archival stories, poems, and interviews for our readers. Sign up for the Redux, and you’ll receive pieces by writers like Alice Munro, Derek Walcott, and Frank O’Hara straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. https://t.co/nzpitPGrVu https://t.co/ZKCPyQ42Hr