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Lorin Stein has been named the new editor of The Paris Review. Click here to read the press release.

4/1 André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun read at NYU.

4/13 The 2010 Spring Revel will honor Philip Roth.
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IN MEMORIAM:
Barry Hannah
(1942–2010)
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NEW WINTER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW
Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction.

An interview with Mary Karr: “In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.”

Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.

A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.

New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.

Plus Benjamin Percy's encounters with the animal world; a folio of photographs by Massimo Vitali; winter poetry by Marianne Boruch, Cathy Park Hong, Dorothea Tanning; and more.

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BENJAMIN PERCY, “ME VS. ANIMALS”

Click here to listen to Benjamin Percy read his memoir from the Winter 2009 issue.

  FROM THE NEW ISSUE

Me vs. Animals
Benjamin Percy

The animal rose up from where it had been grazing and stepped from behind a thicket of scrub birch and revealed itself to be a moose with a wide rack of antlers and a droopy nose. I felt relieved, but it was short lived. Moose might look ridiculous, but they can be the most dangerous things in the forest. When confronted they will stomp you with their hooves and scoop you into the basket of their antlers.



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