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  1. Apparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
    theparisreview.org/blog/2025/1 #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated

  2. Bud Smith's "My Truck Desk" is the latest addition to the long list of things that sound way more interesting than they actually are. 🚚✏️ With more plugs than a leaky boat, it's hard to tell if it's a literary piece or a full-page ad for The Paris Review. 📰💸
    theparisreview.org/blog/2025/1 #BudSmith #MyTruckDesk #HackerNews #LiteraryHumor #TheParisReview #HackerNews #ngated

  3. Reading the Room: An Interview with Paul Yamazaki
    By Seminary Co-Op Bookstore:

    "My faith in the reader is profound. Our role is to bring them to a new door, to a new room. We are trying to choose the best of what’s out there. How do we arrive at the best? Reading and conversations with other readers, other booksellers."

    theparisreview.org/blog/2024/0

    #Paulyamazaki #Books #Writers #Academia #Citylightsbookstore #Readers #Blackwriters #Art #History #Images #SanFrancisco #Bookstore #theparisreview ❤️

  4. This article by Hanif Abdurraqib in The Paris Review draws analogies between one of my favourite games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and his own life. It’s probably worth pointing out that the article contains spoilers for the single-player version of the game.
    What I appreciated about Abdurraqib’s writing is that he doesn’t use the world […]

    https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/23/what-after-all-is-redemption/

  5. I really enjoyed this essay by David Schurman Wallace in The Paris Review about being distracted while writing. It reminded me of a much shorter version of one my favourite books about writing: Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer.
    Wallace delves into the complexities of distraction, using Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet as […]

    https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/12/the-complexities-of-distraction/