Paris Review Short Story Class

Object Lessons : The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story

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"The Paris Review: Short Story Class" is a collection of short story reviews, all of which are from the famous American literary magazine "The Paris Review".

Jiujiu Readers launched The Paris Review's renowned "Writer Interview" series several years ago. Beyond interviews, The Paris Review itself is a leading international literary powerhouse, consistently publishing the world's finest short stories. Since its founding in 1953, it has amassed hundreds of exquisite works of literary art. In 2012, Lorraine Stein, then editor-in-chief of The Paris Review, invited twenty leading contemporary short story writers to select a short story published in the magazine and write a short review based on their preferences and aesthetics. Lorraine and Sadie Stein then published these selected stories and their short reviews together in a collection.

The twenty short stories collected in this book are all different, with great differences in style and length, and the publication time span is almost as long as the history of the magazine. But there is no doubt that they are all of extremely high quality, reflecting the highest level and trend of contemporary short story writing from all aspects.

The reviews of these twenty novels each have their own purpose. Some offer a concise and macro overview of the stylistic features of the entire work, while others examine the text's sentences and wording in great detail. In short, examining another author's work from their perspective is a professional perspective that will surely benefit readers greatly.

The authors, works, and reviewers of this book include:

Joy Williams' "Dim Lights" / Review by Daniel Alarcón

Craig Nova's "Just a Gambler" / Review by Ann Beattie

Leonard Michaels' "City Boys" / Review by David Bezemorgis

Jane Bowles, The Diaries of Amy Moore / Review by Lydia Davis

James Salter's Bangkok / Review by Dave Eggers

Dennis Johnson's "The Hitchhiker" / Review by Jeffrey Eugenides

Mary-Beth Hughes's The Pelican Song / Review by Mary Gaitskill

Jorge Luis Borges's "Funes the Memory" / Review by Alexander Hemon

Bernard Cooper's Old Bird / Review by Amy Hempel

Thomas Green, "Apart from my illness, I'm quite healthy now, I kid you not" / Review by Jonathan Lethem

Mary Robison's "Lake Lake" / Review by Sam Lipster

Donald Barthelme's A Few Funny Stories / Review by Ben Marcus

Raymond Carver, How About a Dance? / Review by David Means

Ethan Kanin's The Thief of War / Review by Lorrie Moore

Stephen Millhauser's "Flying Carpet" / Review by Daniel Orozco

Guy Davenport's Dinner at the Bank of England / Review by Norman Rush

Norman Rush's "The Lie of Existence" / Review by Mona Simpson

Lydia Davis's Ten Stories of Flaubert / Review by Ali Smith

Ivan S. Cornell's The Grand Life of Mrs. Bridget / Review by Welles Tower

Dallas Webb's Night Flight to Stockholm / Review by Joy Williams

2019-05-01

人民文学出版社

99 Readers

362

9787020132317